Re: fatal: serious inflate inconsistency

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

Hello,
and here is another one I guess: ;-(

        (tomcat-05) [/usr/src] git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
        Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/src/linux-2.6/.git/
        remote: Generating pack...
        remote: Done counting 496911 objects.
        remote: Deltifying 496911 objects...
        remote:  100% (496911/496911) done
        Indexing 496911 objects...
        remote: Total 496911 (delta 401539), reused 493712 (delta 398653)
        100% (496911/496911) done
        Resolving 401539 deltas...
        fatal: serious inflate inconsistency
        fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
        fetch-pack from
        'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git' failed.
        (tomcat-05) [/usr/src] git version
        git version 1.5.2.1

This is bad.

index-pack works like this:

1) it receives data over the network:
   1a) it writes a copy of that data to disk to create a pack
   1b) it deflates that data in parallel to compute its SHA1

2) when done, it resolves deltas and to do so:
   2a) it deflates the base object data from 1a
   2b) it applies the delta over the base object data then compute its 
       SHA1

In your case it seems that 1B and 2A don't produce the same deflated 
data somehow.

Is it reproducible?
Are you using Linux?  What kernel version?
Are you using NFS?

If it isn't reproducible then you might possibly have been the victim of 
faulty hardware.


Nicolas