First I'm not sure if this is a misconfiguration by myself. I run gitolite-3.3 on my server providing an overlay I access with layman. With <git-1.8.1.1 everything works fine. After upgrade on git-1.8.1.1 or later, I receive on local side: * * Errors: * ------ * Failed to sync overlay "myoverlay". * Error was: Syncing overlay "myoverlay" returned status 1! * db.sync() * Remote side writes to /var/log/daemon.log Mar 5 05:11:51 foo git-daemon[22720]: Connection from 78.53.40.255:53462 Mar 5 05:11:52 foo git-daemon[22720]: Extended attributes (14 bytes) exist <host=rueg.eu> Mar 5 05:11:52 foo git-daemon[22720]: Request upload-pack for '/myoverlay.git' Mar 5 05:11:52 foo git-daemon[22720]: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied Mar 5 05:11:52 foo git-daemon[22397]: [22720] Disconnected (with error) Remote side settings in /etc/conf.d/git-daemon GITDAEMON_OPTS="--reuseaddr --syslog --verbose --export-all --base-path=/var/lib/gitolite/repositories -- /var/lib/gitolite/repositories" GIT_USER="git" GIT_GROUP="git" Pulling/Pushing as a normal user works fine, just getting the overlay via layman doesn't work anymore. As the remote side says "/root/.config/git/config" is missing maybe $HOME doesn't get overwritten correctly, when running git-daemon via the init-script (see $URL). ps output: root 28300 0.0 0.0 12692 1004 ? Ss 05:45 0:00 /usr/bin/git daemon --pid-file=/var/run/git-daemon.pid --user=git --group=git --reuseaddr --syslog --verbose --export-all --base-path=/var/lib/gitolite/repositories -- /var/lib/gitolite/repositories git 28302 0.0 0.1 20048 1084 ? S 05:45 0:00 git-daemon --pid-file=/var/run/git-daemon.pid --user=git --group=git --reuseaddr --syslog --verbose --export-all --base-path=/var/lib/gitolite/repositories -- /var/lib/gitolite/repositories
As a workaround, you can try to make /root world readable and executable (o+rx) and see if it helps.
Created attachment 341040 [details] git-daemon-initd.patch Thanks to some helpful hints from BtbN, I've moved the user/group/pid mgmt from git to startstopdaemon. Now everything works as expected.
Actually I think the problem lies deeper. The patch is only a workaround for a misbehavior of git-daemon. Currently it is no longer possible to run git-daemon with xinetd until you run this service as root.
This also works: $ sudo HOME=/home/git rc-service git-daemon restart So probably a git daemon does not properly set its environment.
This can be worked around without modifying the /etc/init.d/git-daemon by adding HOME="/path/to/git/user/home" to the end of /etc/conf.d/git-daemon. For example, adding HOME="/" for GIT_USER="nobody" makes git-daemon work as-expected.
(In reply to Justin J. Snelgrove from comment #5) > For example, adding HOME="/" for GIT_USER="nobody" makes git-daemon work > as-expected. Yes, runs for me after git-daemon restart: GITDAEMON_OPTS="--syslog --base-path=/var/lib/gitolite/repositories" GIT_USER="git" GIT_GROUP="git" HOME="/var/lib/gitolite"
*** Bug 468512 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Does this still happen with =dev-vcs/git-1.8.5.4? Please note that git-1.8.5.4 comes wit a rewritten init script and I need the results with that script without being modified in any way.
its not in the log on the server anymore, its displayed as a warning on pull: remote: warning: unable to access '/root/.config/git/attributes': Permission denied not perfect, but it at least works now. (as in it doesn't error out) still, adding HOME to /etc/conf.d/git-daemon as per comment #6 makes it go away completely
I still think the only real fix for this is not using the --user/--group option of git-daemon, and instead use start-stop-daemon to change the user/group, which makes it behave like expected.
+ 07 Feb 2014; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> git-1.8.1.5.ebuild, + git-1.8.1.5-r1.ebuild, git-1.8.2.1.ebuild, git-1.8.3.2-r1.ebuild, + git-1.8.4.5.ebuild, git-1.8.5.3.ebuild, git-1.8.5.4.ebuild, git-9999.ebuild, + files/git-daemon-r1.initd: + Attempt to fix startup of git-daemon as non-root user (bug #460370). Added + sys-devel/gettext to DEPEND when nls USE flag is enabled. + Please re-emerge git-1.8.5.4 and try again. I've changed the init script (as suggested) to let start-stop-daemon assign the user/group. Report your results here.
Yes, works without any error or warning with the new initscript for me.
