A sudden lack of permission

  Dear All

I have been using git quite happily for a good while, pushing to my 
remote.  Suddenly this afternoon the remote told me I didn't have 
permission:

     $ git push
     ivan@remote.org's password:
     Counting objects: 19, done.
     Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
     Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
     Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.04 KiB, done.
     Total 11 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
     error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository 
database ./objects

     fatal: failed to write object
     error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
     To ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git
      ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
     error: failed to push some refs to 
'ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git'

I had sufficient permission even this morning!

Please could someone tell me what might have happened and, more 
importantly, how I can start pushing to the remote again?  The project 
in my_repos is large, so I'd rather not start a new repos from scratch.

With thanks and best wishes

Ivan

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:52:52PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:

I have been using git quite happily for a good while, pushing to my
remote.  Suddenly this afternoon the remote told me I didn't have
permission:

    $ git push
    ivan@remote.org's password:
    Counting objects: 19, done.
    Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
    Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.04 KiB, done.
    Total 11 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
    error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository
database ./objects

    fatal: failed to write object
    error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
    To ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git
     ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
    error: failed to push some refs to
'ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git'

I had sufficient permission even this morning!

Please could someone tell me what might have happened and, more
importantly, how I can start pushing to the remote again?  The
project in my_repos is large, so I'd rather not start a new repos
from scratch.

Presumably the permissions on the server changed for some reason. Can
you ssh to the remote host and confirm that user "ivan" has permissions
to write to the repo's objects dir? If not, then you will have to figure
out what happened, but it is likely outside the scope of git (e.g., an
overly inclusive chmod by some cron job or admin on the box).

If you do have permissions, then we will have to dig deeper into why git
would fail, but the permissions would appear fine.

-Peff

  Dear Peff

Thanks for your help.

Yes, I can ssh onto the server, cd to /var/www/git/my_repos.git and add, 
edit files, etc.

There is another person on the box doing sysadmin.  I'll ask.

Is there any reason the repos could have just broken somehow?  A corrupt 
push?

Best wishes

Ivan



On 27/09/2010 17:07, Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:52:52PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:

quoted

I have been using git quite happily for a good while, pushing to my
remote.  Suddenly this afternoon the remote told me I didn't have
permission:

     $ git push
     ivan@remote.org's password:
     Counting objects: 19, done.
     Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
     Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
     Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.04 KiB, done.
     Total 11 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
     error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository
database ./objects

     fatal: failed to write object
     error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
     To ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git
      ! [remote rejected] master ->  master (n/a (unpacker error))
     error: failed to push some refs to
'ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git'

I had sufficient permission even this morning!

Please could someone tell me what might have happened and, more
importantly, how I can start pushing to the remote again?  The
project in my_repos is large, so I'd rather not start a new repos
from scratch.

Presumably the permissions on the server changed for some reason. Can
you ssh to the remote host and confirm that user "ivan" has permissions
to write to the repo's objects dir? If not, then you will have to figure
out what happened, but it is likely outside the scope of git (e.g., an
overly inclusive chmod by some cron job or admin on the box).

If you do have permissions, then we will have to dig deeper into why git
would fail, but the permissions would appear fine.

-Peff

-- 
============================================================
Ivan A. Uemlianin
Speech Technology Research and Development

                     ivan@llaisdy.com
                      www.llaisdy.com
                          llaisdy.wordpress.com
                      www.linkedin.com/in/ivanuemlianin

     "Froh, froh! Wie seine Sonnen, seine Sonnen fliegen"
                      (Schiller, Beethoven)
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:16:43PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:

Thanks for your help.

Yes, I can ssh onto the server, cd to /var/www/git/my_repos.git and
add, edit files, etc.

Did you check specifically the /var/www/git/my_repos.git/objects
directory?

Is there any reason the repos could have just broken somehow?  A
corrupt push?

I can't imagine a corrupt push would do it. Git shouldn't be changing
the permissions on the objects directory at all.

-Peff

  On 27/09/2010 17:22, Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:16:43PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:

quoted

Yes, I can ssh onto the server, cd to /var/www/git/my_repos.git and
add, edit files, etc.

Did you check specifically the /var/www/git/my_repos.git/objects
directory?

I can add files to the objects directory, but files in subdirectories 
(eg ff/, info/, pack/) are read only.

I have tried pushing to other reposes on the same server and some I can 
push to some I can't.  Ones I /can/ push to, their objects/ff/ etc 
directories are read only.

I'm using git a lot, but as (a) it generally just works and (b) I'm 
doing very basic things (pull, push, add, commit, status), I know very 
little about what is really going on.

Best wishes

Ivan


-- 
============================================================
Ivan A. Uemlianin
Speech Technology Research and Development

                     ivan@llaisdy.com
                      www.llaisdy.com
                          llaisdy.wordpress.com
                      www.linkedin.com/in/ivanuemlianin

     "Froh, froh! Wie seine Sonnen, seine Sonnen fliegen"
                      (Schiller, Beethoven)
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