Re: Cannot clone a certain Git module

[Stefan Skoglund <Stefan Skoglund agj net>]

ons 2012-02-01 klockan 23:41 +0100 skrev Mario Blättermann:
> Hi all,
> 
> currently I'm unable to clone the "longomatch" Git module. The download 
> seems to start as usual, but after a while I get the following error 
> message:
> 
> $ git clone ssh://mariobl git gnome org/git/longomatch
> Cloning into 'longomatch'...
> Enter passphrase for key '/home/mariobl/.ssh/id_rsa':
> remote: Counting objects: 27755, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11811/11811), done.
> Write failed: Broken pipe13830/27755), 41.49 MiB | 236 KiB/s
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> fatal: early EOF
> fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> 
> This is reproducible, with a difference in the count of the downloadable 
> files. The range goes up sometimes to 93%, but in most cases I cannot 
> get any file at all.
> 
> What's the problem here? It works as expected with other modules 
> (recently I've cloned gnome-games, vte and gdk-pixbuf). Don't know for 
> which Bugzilla module I could file a bug.
> 

Can it be MTU exploring who is broken (some gw/fw or router who doesnt
propagate icmp as it should) ?

If you are on linux i suggests that you disable mtu discovery and then
tests again.
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echo 1 >proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_discovery 
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