Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] xinetd/anonymous-git hosed again? restarted xinetd and all's well

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On 10/18/12 5:05 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I noticed that anonymous git operations were failing (yet again!):
>
>      $ git fetch
>      fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>
>      Please make sure you have the correct access rights
>      and the repository exists.
>      [Exit 1]
>
> And not just once or twice.  It failed 20+ times over several minutes.
>
> Poking around on git.sv.gnu.org, I see the same problem:
>
>      address@hidden telnet localhost git
>      Trying 127.0.0.1...
>      Connected to vcs.savannah.gnu.org.
>      Escape character is '^]'.
>      Connection closed by foreign host.
>      [Exit 1]
>
> I did see xinetd running as well as over 150 git-upload-pack processes:
>
>      address@hidden ps auxww|grep -c git.uplo
>      157
>
> Some date back to July(!):
>
>      nobody   11305  0.0  0.0   3136   400 ?        S    Jul27   0:00 git 
> upload-pack --strict --timeout=0 .
>
> Solution: restarted xinetd.  (twice, since the first time it failed to restart)
>
>      service xinetd restart
>
> and now all's well.
>
> PS. I've killed all git-upload-pack processes started before October,
> so now we're down to 29.

Thanks, I'll write a script to kill the old git processes in the future.