Bitbucket - git push fails. Packet corrupt | Broken pipe

Question

A strange problem suddenly occurred in most of my repos. I used to push normaly via SSH to Bitbucket, different types of files (.html, .pdf, .png, .js, .css, etc.) without any problems.

Few days ago I started getting the following error when trying to push:

Received disconnect from 104.192.143.3: 2: Packet corrupt
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

It seems to happen when images or pdf files are included in my commits. For minor changes in text files, I can push without any problem.

I tried to push via HTTPS and got the following error:

error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 0
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly.

Tried to increase the httpPostBuffer:

(git config http.postBuffer 524288000)

but with no success. Tried to create .gitattributes file for proper handling of files and then removed cached index, again with no success.

I am working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Git version is 1.9.1.

Tried to reproduce the error on a Windows machine, by cloning the repo and making similar changes, but I wasn't able, as it pushed normally.

I am stuck.

Any help aprreciated.

Thanks in advance,
George Georgopoulos

Answer 1

In my case I switch my connection from ADSL to the hotspot of my SmartPhone and it works...

Answer 2

Another solution is to install a rate limiter on your computer.

I installed Network Link Conditioner from apple, set it to 500kbit/s upload speed maximum and I can push to bitbucket again.

Get Network Link Conditioner from apples developer site. It's part of the Hardware IO Tools for Xcode package. It was a little fiddly to get running. I had to install the version that matched my Xcode installation before it worked, and rebooted at least once.