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

Port 22 was being blocked on my computer. Once I found what was blocking it and opened the port, I was able to run the bower install cmd without any issues.

Answer 2

It appears as though azsl1326 failed to use bower (git) over port 9418 (git://), then told git to use port 22 (https://) instead. This was still failing, but then opening port 22 got the desired result.

The most direct solution is to open port 9418. This is the port that the git:// protocol uses.

Answer 3

Check your git config settings (git config --global --edit). In my case there were a couple of no longer valid entries like:

[core]
gitproxy=gitproxy.cmd
["https://"]
["https://"]
[url "https://"]

Revise them and remove if you don't need them anymore.

Answer 4

If your country block github, e.g. China mainland, then you can build a proxy, e.g. use goagent & gae, then set proxy address for git, e.g.

git config --global http.proxy 127.0.0.1:8087

Answer 5

Are you behind a firewall?

Git doesn't pick up the proxy configuration when it's called, so set environment variables explicitly, e.g.:

export HTTP_PROXY=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/

If your corporate proxy doesn't need authentication just omit the username:password@ bit in the URLs.

It worked for me!

Answer 6

Navigate to your Application Folder and run this command

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

"

This should fix your issue