The remote end hung up unexpectedly while git cloning

Question

My git client repeatedly fails with the following error after trying to clone the repository for some time.

What could be the issue here?

Answer 1

The http.postBuffer trick did not work for me. However:

For others experiencing this problem, it may be an issue with GnuTLS. If you set Verbose mode, you may see the underlying error look something along the lines of the code below.

Unfortunately, my only solution so far is to use SSH.

I've seen a solution posted elsewhere to compile Git with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS. There is an active bug report for the issue here.

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone https://github.com/django/django.git

Cloning into 'django'...
* Couldn't find host github.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 192.30.252.131... * Connected to github.com (192.30.252.131) port 443 (#0)
* found 153 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
*    server certificate verification OK
*    common name: github.com (matched)
*    server certificate expiration date OK
*    server certificate activation date OK
*    certificate public key: RSA
*    certificate version: #3
*    subject: 
*    start date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
*    expire date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:00:00 GMT
*    issuer: C=US,O=DigiCert Inc,OU=www.digicert.com,CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV CA-1
*    compression: NULL
*    cipher: ARCFOUR-128
*    MAC: SHA1
> GET /django/django.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.8.4
Host: github.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip

Pragma: no-cache
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: GitHub.com
< Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:28:14 GMT

< Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-advertisement
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
< Pragma: no-cache
< Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< 
* Connection #0 to host github.com left intact
* Couldn't find host github.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 192.30.252.131... * connected
* found 153 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* SSL re-using session ID
*    server certificate verification OK
*    common name: github.com (matched)
*    server certificate expiration date OK
*    server certificate activation date OK
*    certificate public key: RSA
*    certificate version: #3
*    subject: 
*    start date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
*    expire date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:00:00 GMT
*    issuer: C=US,O=DigiCert Inc,OU=www.digicert.com,CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV CA-1
*    compression: NULL
*    cipher: ARCFOUR-128
*    MAC: SHA1
> POST /django/django.git/git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.8.4
Host: github.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip

Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-request
Accept: application/x-git-upload-pack-result
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 2299
* upload completely sent off: 2299out of 2299 bytes

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: GitHub.com
< Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:28:15 GMT

< Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-result
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
< Pragma: no-cache
< Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< 
remote: Counting objects: 232015, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (65437/65437), done.
* GnuTLS recv error (-9): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
* Closing connection #0
error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 200
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed