git: can't push (unpacker error) related to permission issues

Question

I have this problem when i try to push in git:

error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database ./objects

fatal: failed to write o         


        

Answer 1

This problem can also occur after Ubuntu upgrades that require a reboot.

If the file /var/run/reboot-required exists, do or schedule a restart.

Answer 2

In case anyone else is stuck with this: it just means the write permissions are wrong in the repo that you’re pushing to. Go and chmod -R it so that the user you’re accessing the git server with has write access.

http://blog.shamess.info/2011/05/06/remote-rejected-na-unpacker-error/

It just works.

Answer 3

A simpler way to do this is to add a post-receive script which runs the chmod command after every push to the 'hub' repo on the server. Add the following line to hooks/post-receive inside your git folder on the server:

chmod -Rf u+w /path/to/git/repo/objects

Answer 4

For the permission error using git repository on AWS instance, I successfully solved it by creating a group, and assigning it to the repository folder recursively(-R), and give the written right to this group, and then assign the default aws instance user(ec2-user or ubuntu) to this group.

1. Create a goup name share_group or something else

     sudo groupadd share_group

2. change the repository folder from 'root' group to 'share_group'

     sudo chgrp -R share_group /path/to/your/repository

3. add the write authority to share_group

     sudo chmod -R g+w /path/to/your/repository

4. The last step is to assign current user--default user when login (by default ec2 is 'ec2-user', user of ubuntu instance is 'ubuntu' in ubuntu on aws) to share_group. I am using ubuntu insance on aws, so my default user is ubuntu.

     sudo usermod -a -G share_group ubuntu

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By the way, to see the ownership of the folder or file just type:

    ls -l  /path/to/your/repository

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Output:

    drwxr-x--x  2 root shared_group

(explanation please see:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_permissions_and_attributes).

After step 3, you will see

    drwx--x--x  2 root root

changed to

    drwxr-x--x  2 root share_group 

In this case, I did not assign user 'ubuntu' to root group, for the consideration of security. You can just try to assign you default user to root according to step 4 (just skip the first 3 steps

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In another way, tried the solution by :

    chmod -Rf u+w /path/to/git/repo/objects

It did not work for me, I think it should be the reason that my repository folder belong to the root user, not to Ubuntu user, and 'git' by default use the default user(ec2-user or Ubuntu user. You can try to change the user and test it.

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Finally, below code definitely work for me, but 777 is not good for security

    sudo chmod -R 777 /path/to/your/repo

Answer 5

It is a permission error. The way that was most appropriate and secure for me was adding users to a supplementary group that the repo. is owned by (or vice versa):

groupadd git
chgrp -R git .git
chgrp -R git ./
usermod -G -a git $(whoami)

Answer 6

I was getting similar error and please see below how I resolved it.

My directory structure: /opt/git/project.git and git user is git

$ cd /opt/git/project.git
$ sudo chown -R git:git .

chown with -R option recursively changes the ownership and and group (since i typed git:git in above command) of the current directory. chown -R is necessary since git changes many files inside your git directory when you push to the repository.