Re: [Savannah-help-public] Problem with ssh access to git

[Trevor Daniels]

Sylvain, you wrote Friday, February 26, 2010 10:07 PM


> I would suggest trying without relying on .ssh/config, and making 
> sure
> there's nothing weird in /etc/hosts.
>
> You should see something like this:
> $ git clone ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/lilypond.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/lilypond/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 189704
> Receiving objects:   7% (20118/287391), 3.83 MiB | 716 KiB/s

OK, at 00:05 GMT on 27 Feb I tried
$ git clone ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/lilypond.git

I saw
> Initialized empty Git repository in 
> /home/trevor/testgit/lilypond/.git/
then nothing more.  No prompt even.  The session is still
hanging 20 minutes later.  Rather strangely it doesn't time
out.  I'll do nothing else at this time so the log at your
end should be clearly related to this attempt.  Could you
check if this connection was made successfully?

> Aside from that I can see connections from you as lately as Feb 25
> 23:59:38.

I think this might have been a
$ ssh -v address@hidden
command.  I tried that (with variations) two or three times
around that time.  They all successfully connected although
the session was immediately terminated of course.

> What bandwidth do you have?

I have a broadband connection, circa 1 Mb/s.  Not as fast
as it should be as the wiring in my village is not very
good.  In case it's relevant I'm using ubuntu running in
a VM under VirtualBox within MS Vista Home Premium.  As
I said earlier, this set-up has worked fine before.

> Sylvain

Thanks for helping - Trevor

------------ history below

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:00:46AM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Sylvain Beucler wrote Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:03 AM
> > >
> > >This works for me.
> >
> > Yes, it seems to work for everyone else, but not for
> > me.
> >
> > >I issued a 'git gc' just in case.
> >
> > Tried that.  No change.
> >
> > I've checked that the call set-up packet is getting
> > to and through my router, and I've tried using nc.
> > Still no luck.  I've now exhausted everything in the
> > SshAccess page and I've run out of ideas.  What else
> > can I try to diagnose this problem (described below)?
> >
> > Trevor
> >
> > >
> > >On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:44:44AM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > >>Hi
> > >>
> > >>I have been able to use ssh to pull and push to lilypond.git at
> > >>199.232.41.69 for many months, but sometime between 8 Feb 2010
> > >>and
> > >>16 Feb 2010 this stopped working with the attempt timing out.
> > >>I've
> > >>tried to resolve this by moving to 140.186.70.72, but I still
> > >>cannot
> > >>push or pull with ssh.  Here's what happens:
> > >>
> > >>$ ssh -v sv
> > >>gives
> > >>>...
> > >>>debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> > >>>debug1: Offering public key: /home/trevor/.ssh/id_dsa
> > >>>debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-dss blen 433
> > >>>debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
> > >>>...
> > >>so my key must be acceptable to savannah.
> > >>
> > >>Also
> > >>$ git pull git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git master
> > >>pulls correctly, so access to lilypond.git looks fine.
> > >>
> > >>But
> > >>$ git pull ssh://sv/srv/git/lilypond.git master
> > >>hangs, and
> > >>$ git pull ssh://sv/lilypond.git master
> > >>returns
> > >>>fatal: '/lilypond.git' does not appear to be a git repository
> > >>>fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> > >>
> > >>My ssh config file contains
> > >>
> > >>IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
> > >>Host sv
> > >>Hostname git.sv.gnu.org
> > >>User trevord
> > >>
> > >>Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?
> > >>
> > >>Trevor