Shannon Cornish

12 comments

1. Pierre MARTIN

   June 4, 2009 at 4:25 pm

   Hi, and thank you very much for your posts on setting up a local Gir repository. I’m not used at all to use these command lines and your explanations are very helpful!

   For the newbies like me, I would like to add an information I did not find immediatly:
   “Copy the public key of the user you wish to administer the Gitosis server to /tmp directory.”
   -> The original file can be found in “/home/xxxx/.ssh/id_rsa.pub” and has to be copied in “/tmp” (where xxxx is the user name : git for example)

   Thanks,
   Pierre
2. Robert

   June 10, 2009 at 10:29 am

   Shannon,

   I get this error when I tried to clone the gitosis-admin repository on my local machine -

   someone@someplace /c/downloads
   $ git clone git@warthog.someplace.edu:gitosis-admin.git
   Initialized empty Git repository in c:/downloads/gitosis-admin/.git/
   git@warthog.someplace.edu‘s password:
   fatal: ‘gitosis-admin.git’: unable to chdir or not a git archive
   fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

   Is the git user that I create on the client or server machine? I suspect I follow the gitosis blog tutorials on the server, but maybe run the ssh part on the local machine that is my client (git user) – and copy the key generated here to the server /tmp folder? to get the key auth pair to work? Does any of this sound familiar? Every part of this tutorial works great except for trying to clone the gitosis admin repo. Thanks,
3. Shannon

   June 22, 2009 at 9:20 am

   Hi Pierre,

   Thanks for the additional information.
4. Shannon

   June 22, 2009 at 9:25 am

   Robert,

   The git user you create is on the server.
   From the error, it looks like you are unable to authenticate to your git server.

   Did you copy your client SSH key to the server’s /tmp folder?
5. Frej

   June 23, 2009 at 11:51 pm

   Thanks for the guide Shannon!

   Robert,

   I got the same “unable to chdir or not a git archive” problem. I solved it by using the path to the repositories folder.

   example:
   git clone git@domain.com:/home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git
6. Rick Tonoli

   December 2, 2009 at 6:46 pm

   Something interesting I noticed (and struggled with for a while) was that the gitosis-init command (gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub) fails if the username in the key (id_rsa.pub) has numerics in it, weird. It complains about invalid characters in the username. My particular problem was that the key I created using ssh-keygen created the key with a user git@ but had numerics in it.
7. Rick Tonoli

   December 2, 2009 at 6:49 pm

   Ok the comment dropped off some of the text, that last piece should read:

   …I created using ssh-keygen create the key with a user git@*servername* but *servername* had numerics in it.
8. TuanHa

   April 17, 2010 at 4:58 am

   I get this error when I tried to clone the gitosis-admin repository on my local machine

   $ git clone git@TUANHA:gitosis-admin.git
   Initialized empty Git repository in d:/temp/gitosis-admin/.git/
   git@TUANHA’s password:
   fatal: ‘gitosis-admin.git’: fatal: ‘gitosis-admin.git’ does not appear to be a git repository
   fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

   but command
   $ git clone git@TUANHA:/home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git run well

   How to fix it.
   Thanks you very much.
9. LinuxTechie

   June 29, 2010 at 6:46 pm

   @ TuanHA,

   Make sure that you arenot prompted for password, if you are prompted for password, then your public keys are not in place. If you need further help contact me: myself | linuxtechie.net
10. Sebastien

    July 29, 2010 at 11:37 am

    I’m stuck there.

    $ gitosis-init < id_rsa.pub
    2 [main] python 66492 C:\cygwin\bin\python.exe: *** fatal error – unable t
    o remap \\?\C:\cygwin\lib\python2.6\lib-dynload\time.dll to same address as pare
    nt: 0×360000 != 0×380000
    2 [main] python 30908 fork: child 66492 – died waiting for dll loading, er
    rno 11
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/gitosis-init", line 8, in
    load_entry_point(‘gitosis==0.2′, ‘console_scripts’, ‘gitosis-init’)()
    File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.6.egg/gitosis/app.py”,
    line 24, in run
    return app.main()
    File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.6.egg/gitosis/app.py”,
    line 38, in main
    self.handle_args(parser, cfg, options, args)
    File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.6.egg/gitosis/init.py”,
    line 136, in handle_args
    user=user,
    File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.6.egg/gitosis/init.py”,
    line 75, in init_admin_repository
    template=resource_filename(‘gitosis.templates’, ‘admin’)
    File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.6.egg/gitosis/repositor
    y.py”, line 51, in init
    close_fds=True,
    File “/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py”, line 480, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
    File “/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py”, line 633, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
    File “/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py”, line 1049, in _execute_child
    self.pid = os.fork()
    OSError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable
11. Michael

    September 27, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    Sebastien,

    I had the same problem but found the solution here: http://yosanai.com/cygwin-unable-remap-dll-same-address-parent

    I had to stop the SSHD service, close all cygwin windows, run the c:\cygwin\bin\ash.exe shell and then execute /bin/rebaseall