Can't push to GitHub: error: index-pack died of signal 11

[AlainODea]

When I try to push to GitHub I get an error message error: index-pack died of signal 11. Here is a transcript:

$ hg --debug push git+ssh://git@github.com/zotonic/zotonic-test
pushing to git+ssh://git@github.com/zotonic/zotonic-test
creating and sending data
calling ssh: ssh git@github.com 'git-receive-pack '\''/zotonic/zotonic-test'\'''
["git-receive-pack '/zotonic/zotonic-test'"]
error: index-pack died of signal 11
broken pipe

This happens on both my laptop and the server from which I attempting to synchronize the Mercurial and Git repositories.

[tathamoddie]

I'm getting this same issue with de0b2661032f.

C:\Code\Neo4jClient>hg pus github
pushing to git+ssh://git@github.com/tathamoddie/Neo4jClient.git
exporting hg objects to git
creating and sending data
["git-receive-pack 'tathamoddie/Neo4jClient.git'"]
error: index-pack died of signal 11

[tathamoddie]

Updated to 413:b8eeabb61c7b and now getting a slightly different output:

C:\Code\Neo4jClient>hg pus github
pushing to git+ssh://git@github.com/tathamoddie/Neo4jClient.git
creating and sending data
["git-receive-pack 'tathamoddie/Neo4jClient.git'"]
error: index-pack died of signal 11
abort: Invalid argument

Only affects this particular repo.

[denisdefreyne]

Same issue here. For the nanoc repository, I am trying to push the release-3.1.x branch, but am getting this:

pushing to git+ssh://git@github.com/ddfreyne/nanoc.git importing Hg objects into Git creating and sending data ["git-receive-pack '/ddfreyne/nanoc.git'"] error: index-pack died of signal 11

[reuben]

I'm having the same problem, trying to push a good amount of commits to a GitHub repository (mirroring an existing repo).

[denisdefreyne]

Using the latest hg-git from github fixed the issue for me.

[AlainODea]

Using https://github.com/offbytwo/git-hg fixed the issue for me. It's an alternative implementation and runs much faster than hg-git. It's based on git-fast-import.

[AlainODea]

I didn't mean to close this. This bug isn't fixed. Sorry.

[guetux]

Having the same issue with the current master branch version. Where can i donate beer so this will be fixed soon? :D

[testinfected]

I have the same error with latest trunk, dulwich 0.7.1 and mercurial 1.9 on OSX 10.6.8. hg push worked fine for a number of changesets, then suddenly started failing with:

$ hg push github
pushing to git+ssh://git@github.com/testinfected/cuckoo.git
creating and sending data
["git-receive-pack '/testinfected/cuckoo.git'"]
error: index-pack died of signal 11
abort: git remote error: unpack index-pack abnormal exit

When I clone the same repo with git (1.7.1), I can push without problem.

[rickchristie]

Also have this issue, dulwich 0.7.1, mercurial 1.6.3 - pushing was fine and suddenly breaks. Error dump below:

["git-receive-pack '/rickchristie/Carrot.git'"]
error: index-pack died of signal 11
** unknown exception encountered, details follow
** report bug details to http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/
** or mercurial@selenic.com
** Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)]
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.6.3+20100826)
** Extensions loaded: graphlog, extdiff, bookmarks, hggit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/hg", line 27, in <module>
    mercurial.dispatch.run()
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 16, in run
    sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 34, in dispatch
    return _runcatch(u, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 54, in _runcatch
    return _dispatch(ui, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 494, in _dispatch
    cmdpats, cmdoptions)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 355, in runcommand
    ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 545, in _runcommand
    return checkargs()
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 499, in checkargs
    return cmdfunc()

[mperry8889]

same issue. dulwich 0.7.1, hg 1.9. pushing worked fine a couple weeks ago. various forms of re-cloning and updating have not helped

[rickchristie]

I have a sneaking suspicion that this happened because of case insensitive file system and renaming something to the same name just with different case.

[jorrizza]

No, it's no case sensitivity issue. I've got the same problem between a Linux box and Github.

[testinfected]

Latest dulwich trunk seems to fix the issue for me so far. Can somebody else confirm that?

[vinc3m1]

Nope. Updated to dulwich 0.8.0 (with hg 1.9), still getting error:

error: index-pack died of signal 11
abort: git remote error: unpack index-pack abnormal exit

[mperry8889]

same here. updated to dulwich trunk, still get signal 11. tried both normal installation and with setup.py --pure, which disables its C extensions.

it's worth noting that i'm able to push into local git repos, but not to github.

[testinfected]

Hum. I was able to push the same content to a new github repo, but it still fails on the original repo

[toots]

Updating to the latest dulwich git trunk fixed the issue for me..

[guetux]

dito for me: latest dulwich and life is easy again.

[testinfected]

Same here

[mperry8889]

working fine here as well

[eserge]

New dulwich (0.8.3) fixes the problem for me.

[bngsudheer]

python-dulwich 0.9.7 latest hg-git from Github

Can't push to git repo. I get the error: abort: git remote error: unpack index-pack abnormal exit

[Zogg]

Experiencing same error as @bngsudheer .

[bngsudheer]

I figured out my problem. I had a '.git' directory in my Mercurial repository. Mercurial itself has no problem having a directory by name '.git'. However, github.com will not accept pushes if the repository contains a '.git' directory. hg-git has nothing to do with it, I guess.

My solution was to remove the offending directory from the Mercurial repository and its history.

[Zogg]

@bngsudheer Indeed, I also have .git directory in my repo history. Do you have any guidelines how to safely remove .git from (mercurial) repository history?

[bngsudheer]

Zogg, sorry, no. I wiped all the history(started a new repository).

[Zogg]

https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/232-removing-files-from-mercurial-history/ is how to safely remove files from the history. Thanks for a tip, @bngsudheer , that solved the problem.

[stvenyin]

i.don't know