Git, error: remote unpack failed: unable to create temporary object directory - By creating new Branch

Question

I'm trying to create a new branch in my repo.

I did this:

git branch events 

git Checkout events 

That worked. So I changed some files and did:

git Status git add --all git commit -m "Commit" 

That worked well but I tried to push it and that didn't work:

git push -u origin events 

This is the error:

Enumerating objects: 9, done.                                                                                                                        Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done.                                                                                                                  Delta compression using up to 4 threads.                                                                                                             Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.                                                                                                               Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 716 bytes | 716.00 KiB/s, done.                                                                                         Total 5 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)                                                                                                                error: remote unpack failed: unable to create temporary object directory                                                                             To http://git.int.censoredlink/scm/freeb/freebrep.git                                                                                         ! [remote rejected] events -> events (unpacker error)                                                                                               error: failed to push some refs to 'http://[email protected]/scm/freeb/freebrep.git' 

I don't know why it does not work.

I have Admin rights on the Repo. I censored the link to the repo because its an internal Repo with private link.

Answer 1

This error message:

error: remote unpack failed: unable to create temporary object directory 

indicates that the Git repository at the server (not your Git) is out of space, or running into similar server problems,¹ or installed incorrectly. That is, given:

To: http://git.int.censoredlink/scm/freeb/freebrep.git 

you will have to log in to the machine that serves HTTP traffic at git.int.censoredlink, walk down to the scm/freeb/freebrep.git directory, and correct the installation there. It's most likely a permissions issue: the receiving Git must be able to create, in the objects area, a directory named incoming-XXXXXX with the Xs replaced by a unique identifier, and then create within that directory a pack subdirectory.

All incoming objects and pack files are placed in these directories, in a sort of quarantine procedure, until the server-side Git hooks are satisfied with the reference name update requests. If the push fails, the quarantine directory is simply removed. If the push succeeds, the quarantined objects and/or pack files are migrated (and thin packs adjusted) into the normal object storage area. Note that the migration can fail even if the quarantine process succeeds; but if it does so, you get a different error reported to the client. (This error must also be corrected on the server.)

Note: it's rather unusual to push to http:// rather than https:// or ssh:// URLs. Inspect your server configuration to see who will own the various files thus created, and what permissions the web server will have.

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¹If a hard drive fails, Linux will sometimes mark the drive and/or its file systems read only. Or, even if you have disk space, you can run out of inodes. A number of different root causes will all lead to the same observed behavior on your client end. If you are a Linux admin checking on a server, look for system log messages, and consider both df and df -i output.

Answer 2

If you are working as a root user, please first change the user to your git user and then init your git directory:

1. if you are root -> $ [root@server ~]#
2. change user -> $ su - username
3. init a git repo -> [username@server ~] $ git init --bare git-repo.git
4. push from client -> Now you can push from the client:
   git remote add yourAliasName ssh://username@IP-or-HOST:sshPort/home/username/git-repo.git

Note:
I supposed you have created a public/private key already in your client and passed the public key to the /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys server file. Otherwise you have to do it before step(4).