fatal: unexpected EOF

Lately I've been receiving this error frequently from git.kernel.org:

Fetching pack (head and objects)...
fatal: unexpected EOF
cg-fetch: fetching pack failed

What is causing this?

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						Brian Gerst

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Brian Gerst wrote:

Lately I've been receiving this error frequently from git.kernel.org:

Fetching pack (head and objects)...
fatal: unexpected EOF
cg-fetch: fetching pack failed

What is causing this?

Almost any error will cause the pack sending to abort, and the git:// 
protocol only opens a single socket for data, so there is no way for the 
other end to say _what_ failed.

With git.kernel.org, I suspect the reason for the failure is almost always 
the same, though: the mirroring is not complete, so it doesn't have all 
object files. The mirroring from master.kernel.org to the actual public 
machines is just a rsync script, so there's no atomicity guarantees.

That said, it might be a load issue too - I don't know what limits 
Peter & co put on the git daemons, and it might also be that it's set up 
to accept at most <n> connections and will close anything else.

		Linus

Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Brian Gerst wrote:

quoted

Lately I've been receiving this error frequently from git.kernel.org:

Fetching pack (head and objects)...
fatal: unexpected EOF
cg-fetch: fetching pack failed

What is causing this?

Almost any error will cause the pack sending to abort, and the git:// 
protocol only opens a single socket for data, so there is no way for the 
other end to say _what_ failed.

With git.kernel.org, I suspect the reason for the failure is almost always 
the same, though: the mirroring is not complete, so it doesn't have all 
object files. The mirroring from master.kernel.org to the actual public 
machines is just a rsync script, so there's no atomicity guarantees.

That said, it might be a load issue too - I don't know what limits 
Peter & co put on the git daemons, and it might also be that it's set up 
to accept at most <n> connections and will close anything else.

		Linus

I doubt it is a problem with mirroring, since it affects all repos 
(kernel, git, cogito, etc.) at the same time.

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				Brian Gerst

I doubt it is a problem with mirroring, since it affects all repos
(kernel, git, cogito, etc.) at the same time.

Ditto.  Jes has been grumbling overnight that he can't get a reliable pull
from my kernel repo ... and that hasn't been updated in 10 days, so the
mirror code shouldn't be touching it.  His error was:

  fatal: read error (Connection reset by peer)
  Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/...

He also reported that after a few retries it worked.

Does the git daemon log any errors to syslog on the server?  If so, can someone
with access go take a look.

-Tony

Tony Luck, Tue, Feb 28, 2006 16:59:09 +0100:

quoted

I doubt it is a problem with mirroring, since it affects all repos
(kernel, git, cogito, etc.) at the same time.

Ditto.  Jes has been grumbling overnight that he can't get a reliable pull
from my kernel repo ... and that hasn't been updated in 10 days, so the
mirror code shouldn't be touching it.  His error was:

  fatal: read error (Connection reset by peer)
  Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/...

He also reported that after a few retries it worked.

I had the problems too and even made the patch (below) to see what it
was. I saw to A-records for zeus-pub.kernel.org (git.kernel.org is an
alias of it) where one of them (I believe it was 204.152.191.37)
sometimes didn't answer or dropped connection.

---

 connect.c |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

b5ceb5f3f1c6ff62a3ccb13f360a34b07b9c8482

diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 3f2d65c..e911fde 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c

@@ -322,6 +322,23 @@ static enum protocol get_protocol(const 
 
 #ifndef NO_IPV6
 
+static const char *ai_name(const struct addrinfo *ai)
+{
+	static char addr[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];
+	if ( AF_INET == ai->ai_family ) {
+		struct sockaddr_in *in;
+		in = (struct sockaddr_in *)ai->ai_addr;
+		inet_ntop(ai->ai_family, &in->sin_addr, addr, sizeof(addr));
+	} else if ( AF_INET6 == ai->ai_family ) {
+		struct sockaddr_in6 *in;
+		in = (struct sockaddr_in6 *)ai->ai_addr;
+		inet_ntop(ai->ai_family, &in->sin6_addr, addr, sizeof(addr));
+	} else {
+		strcpy(addr, "(unknown)");
+	}
+	return addr;
+}
+
 static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], const char *prog, char *host, char *path)
 {
 	int sockfd = -1;

@@ -329,6 +346,7 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 	char *port = STR(DEFAULT_GIT_PORT);
 	struct addrinfo hints, *ai0, *ai;
 	int gai;
+	int cnt = 0;
 
 	if (host[0] == '[') {
 		end = strchr(host + 1, ']');

@@ -355,15 +373,23 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 	if (gai)
 		die("Unable to look up %s (%s)", host, gai_strerror(gai));
 
-	for (ai0 = ai; ai; ai = ai->ai_next) {
+	for (ai0 = ai; ai; ++cnt, ai = ai->ai_next) {
 		sockfd = socket(ai->ai_family, ai->ai_socktype, ai->ai_protocol);
 		if (sockfd < 0)
 			continue;
 		if (connect(sockfd, ai->ai_addr, ai->ai_addrlen) < 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s[%d: %s]: net=%s, errno=%s\n",
+				argv0,
+				host,
+				cnt,
+				ai_name(ai),
+				hstrerror(h_errno),
+				strerror(errno));
 			close(sockfd);
 			sockfd = -1;
 			continue;
 		}
+		fprintf(stderr, "using %s[%s]\n", host, ai_name(ai));
 		break;
 	}
 

@@ -389,6 +415,7 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 	struct sockaddr_in sa;
 	char **ap;
 	unsigned int nport;
+	int cnt;
 
 	if (host[0] == '[') {
 		end = strchr(host + 1, ']');

@@ -420,7 +447,7 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 		nport = se->s_port;
 	}
 
-	for (ap = he->h_addr_list; *ap; ap++) {
+	for (cnt = 0, ap = he->h_addr_list; *ap; ap++, cnt++) {
 		sockfd = socket(he->h_addrtype, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
 		if (sockfd < 0)
 			continue;

@@ -431,10 +458,20 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 		memcpy(&sa.sin_addr, *ap, he->h_length);
 
 		if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof sa) < 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s[%d: %s]: net=%s, errno=%s\n",
+				argv0,
+				host,
+				cnt,
+				inet_ntoa(*(struct in_addr *)&sa.sin_addr),
+				hstrerror(h_errno),
+				strerror(errno));
 			close(sockfd);
 			sockfd = -1;
 			continue;
 		}
+		fprintf(stderr, "using %s[%s]\n",
+			host,
+			inet_ntoa(*(struct in_addr *)&sa.sin_addr));
 		break;
 	}
 

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