remote git repository broken ?

Norbert Thiebaud nthiebaud at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 09:46:41 PDT 2015


On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure
<jbfaure at libreoffice.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't anymore update my local repository.
> Git says:
> [...]
> remote: error: refs/tags/libreoffice-5.0.0.5 does not point to a valid
> object!
> remote: error: unable to open object pack directory: ./objects/pack: Too
> many open files
> remote: fatal: failed to read object
> 7c7124a51e467b6ab4df4d0a38000aa657c35029: Too many open files
> remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
> fatal: protocol error: bad pack header
>
> Attached complete log with error messages.

Thanks for the report...

The issue was a lack of git gc on the server side, leading too too
many loose objects, which in turn triggered a 'too many open file
condition'
Should be fixed now

Norbert


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