Git / Bower Errors: Exit Code # 128 & Failed connect

Question

I am using Bower to install several libraries. For demonstration purposes here, I am installing bootstrap. Regardless of the package, I receive the following errors:

Answer 1

This error is related to a bad configuration of your firewall. You will notice that bower trying to contact git via the git:// protocol and not http://. You have to open port 9418. Add this two lines in your iptables configuration :

iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9418 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 9418 -j ACCEPT

This should do the trick.

Answer 2

Run these 2 commands to grant git access via your system

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

These commands are assuming that you have ssh key over the remote git server(bitbucket/github/other)

Answer 3

i found this error on my linux os. and i solve this problem 1. open curl log export GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 2.clone git repo 3. find the log 4. i fix the problem by update nss and curl (yum update nss nss-util nspr curl)

Answer 4

Firstly, you should check if Visual Studio Command prompt recognizes git command: Tools > Command Line

C:\....\> git

if this command is not recognized, you should add git folder into Environment Variables

https://stackoverflow.com/a/26620861/3449657

This is what I was missing and did the trick for me.

Hope it helps.

Answer 5

I know this is not "fixing" the problem, but you can use

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

to tell git to use HTTPS instead of GIT which worked out for me to install npm dependencies.

Answer 6

This worked for me,

Copy the file "libcurl.dll" in Git installation folder ( C:\Program Files\Git\bin\libcurl.dll ). Paste it in location where the git.exe exists ( C:\Program Files\Git\libexec\git-core ).