git unpack error on push to gerrit

Question

On push of a new branch to a gerrit server we encounter the following error:

de@roma:~/git-hate/www$ git push origin landingpage
Counting objects: 149, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (73/73), done.
Writing objects: 100% (111/111), 2.77 MiB, done.
Total 111 (delta 68), reused 80 (delta 38)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (68/68)
error: unpack failed: error Missing tree 30c4809ade0b4b0c81cb7f882450774862b82361
fatal: Unpack error, check server log
To ssh://user@git-server/repository
 ! [remote rejected] landingpage -> landingpage (n/a (unpacker error))
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://user@git-server/repository'

We tried to copy the mentioned tree object to the remote git manually without success.

On gerrit side we get a stacktrace:

[2013-05-16 13:43:42,753] ERROR com.google.gerrit.sshd.BaseCommand : Internal server error (user de account 1000000) during git-receive-pack '/repository'
com.google.gerrit.sshd.BaseCommand$Failure: fatal: Unpack error, check server log
        at com.google.gerrit.sshd.commands.Receive.runImpl(Receive.java:157)
        at com.google.gerrit.sshd.AbstractGitCommand.service(AbstractGitCommand.java:106)
        at com.google.gerrit.sshd.AbstractGitCommand.access$000(AbstractGitCommand.java:34)
        at com.google.gerrit.sshd.AbstractGitCommand$1.run(AbstractGitCommand.java:72)
        at com.google.gerrit.sshd.BaseCommand$TaskThunk.run(BaseCommand.java:430)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:165)
        at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:266)
        at com.google.gerrit.server.git.WorkQueue$Task.run(WorkQueue.java:337)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unpack error on project "repository":
  AdvertiseRefsHook: org.eclipse.jgit.transport.AdvertiseRefsHookChain@7047125class org.eclipse.jgit.transport.AdvertiseRefsHookChain

        at com.google.gerrit.sshd.commands.Receive.runImpl(Receive.java:156)
        ... 13 more
Caused by: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.UnpackException: Exception while parsing pack stream
        at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceivePack.service(ReceivePack.java:202)
        at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceivePack.receive(ReceivePack.java:142)
        at com.google.gerrit.sshd.commands.Receive.runImpl(Receive.java:98)
        ... 13 more
Caused by: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.MissingObjectException: Missing tree 30c4809ade0b4b0c81cb7f882450774862b82361
        at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.BaseReceivePack.checkConnectivity(BaseReceivePack.java:996)
        at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.BaseReceivePack.receivePackAndCheckConnectivity(BaseReceivePack.java:756)
        at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceivePack.service(ReceivePack.java:167)
        ... 15 more

Folks: any ideas what to do?

Answer 1

Pushing with --no-thin argument works as a workaround for me:

git push --no-thin omnigerrit HEAD:refs/for/android-4.4