Error pushing to GitHub - insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database

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I m getting back an unusual error while trying to do a  git push  to my GitHub repository    Counting objects  8  done  Delta compression using 2 threads  Compressing objects  100   4 4   done  Writing objects  100   5 5   1 37 KiB  done  Total 5  delta 2   reused 0  delta 0  error  insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database   objects  fatal  failed to write object error  unpack-objects exited with error code 128 error  unpack failed  unpack-objects abnormal exit To git github com bixo bixo git     remote rejected  master -  master  n a  unpacker error   error  failed to push some refs to  git github com bixo bixo git     After a clean clone from GitHub  I can edit add commit push a modified file  If I then repeat this a second time I get the above error  I can push to other GitHub repositories just fine  I ve checked file directory permissions on my side  and they seem OK  I m running git 1 6 2 3 on Mac OS X 10 5 8   The above repository was the source of my fun for a previous Stack Overflow question  SO 1904860   so maybe the GitHub repo got corrupted  The only similar issue I ve found via searching was an unpack failed problem reported on github  Has anybody else run into this issue before  especially when not using GitHub

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In my case there were no unified authentication (e. g. within the domain + AD-like service) between my machine and git virtual server. Therefore git users and group are local for the virtual server. In my case my remote user (which I use to login into remote server) was just not added into remote git group.

ssh root@<remote_git_server>
usermod -G <remote_git_group> <your_remote_user>

After that check the permissions like it's described in the posts above...

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Oddly enough  I had this issue on one clone of the repo I had  but not another I had   Aside from re-cloning the repo  which a coworker did to successfully get around this issue   I managed to do a  git reset  to the commit I had before the failures started   Then I re-committed the changes  and I was able to push successfully after that   So despite all the indications there was a problem on the server  in this case it apparently was indicative of some oddity in the local repo

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sudo chmod 777 -R  git objects

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I was getting this error because every time a user push some content  the group of the file changed to the user  And then if some other user tried to push into the repository  it caused permission error and the push was rejected  So one need to ask your sysadmin to change the settings of the repository so that group of any file in the repository is not changed for any push by any user    To avoid such problem  please ensure that when you initialize your git repository  use the command  git init --shared group

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I guess many like me ends up in forums like this when the git problem as described above occoures  However  there are so many causes that may lead to the problem that I just wanna share what caused my troubles for others to learn as I already learned from above   I have my repos on a Linux NAS from sitecom  Never buy NAS from Sitecom  pleeaaase   I have a repo here that is cloned on many computers but which I suddenly was denied pushing to  Recently I installed a plugin so that my NAS could stand as a squeezebox server   This server scans for media to share  What I did not know was that  possible because of a bug  the server changes the user and group setting to squeeze user for all files it looks into  And that is ALL files  Thus altering the rights I had to push   Server is gone and proper rights settings are re-established and everything works perfectly   I used  chmod -R g ws   chown -R  lt myuser gt   lt mygroup gt      Where myuser and mygroup off-course must be replaced with proper settings for your system  try git git or gituser gituser or something else you might like

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If you still get this error later after setting the permissions you may need to modify your creation mask  We found our new commits  folders under objects  were still being created with no group write permission  hence only the person who committed them could push into the repository   We fixed this by setting the umask of the SSH users to 002 with an appropriate group shared by all users   e g    umask 002   where the middle 0 is allowing group write by default

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sudo su root  chown -R user group dir   The dir is your git repo   Then do   git pull origin master   You ll see changes about commits by others

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user M063  var www html app  git objects  sudo chmod 777 -R  git objects  user M063  var www html app  git objects  sudo chown -R user user  git objects

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After you add some stuff    commit them and after all finished push it  BANG   Start all problems    As you should notice there are some differences in the way both new and existent projects were defined  If some other person tries to add commit push same files  or content  git keep both as same objects   we will face the following error     git push Counting objects  31  done  Delta compression using up to 2 threads  Compressing objects  100   17 17   done  Writing objects  100   21 21   2 07 KiB   0 bytes s  done  Total 21  delta 12   reused 0  delta 0  remote  error  insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database   objects  remote  fatal  failed to write object   To solve this problem you have to have something in mind operational system s permissions system as you are restricted by it in this case  Tu understand better the problem  go ahead and check your git object s folder   git objects   You will probably see something like that    lt your user name gt   lt the machine name gt  objects   ls -la total 200 drwxr-xr-x 25  lt your user name gt   lt group name gt  2048 Feb 10 09 28   drwxr-xr-x  3  lt his user name gt   lt group name gt  1024 Feb  3 15 06    drwxr-xr-x  2  lt his user name gt   lt group name gt  1024 Jan 31 13 39 02 drwxr-xr-x  2  lt his user name gt   lt group name gt  1024 Feb  3 13 24 08    Note that those file s permissions were granted only for your users  no one will never can changed it       Level       u   g   o Permission rwx r-x --- Binary     111 101 000 Octal       7   5   0   SOLVING THE PROBLEM  If you have super user permission  you can go forward and change all permissions by yourself using the step two  in any-other case you will need to ask all users with objects created with their users  use the following command to know who they are     ls -la   awk   print  3     sort -u   lt your user name gt   lt his user name gt    Now you and all file s owner users will have to change those files permission  doing     chmod -R 774     After that you will need to add a new property that is equivalent to --shared group done for the new repository  according to the documentation  this make the repository group-writable  do it executing     git config core sharedRepository group   https   coderwall com p 8b3ksg

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chmod should be chown  so the correct line is   sudo chown -R gituser gituser objects

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Since the error deals with permissions on the object folder  I did a chown directly on the objects folder and it worked for me

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When you see this error outside of github  here s a remedy   Got this from  http   mapopa blogspot com 2009 10 git-insufficient-permission-for-adding html  ssh me myserver cd repository  git  sudo chmod -R g ws   sudo chgrp -R mygroup    git config core sharedRepository true   After this the git daemon should use the group file permissions when writing to  git objects

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Usually this problem is caused by wrong user and group permissions on your Git servers file-system  The git repository has to be owned by the user and also his group   Example   If your user is called  git   his group  gitgroup   and the location of the Git repo is  git mygitserverxyz com path to repo git  then do a    sudo chown -R git gitgroup path to repo git   This fixed the git insufficient permission error for me

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Have you try sudo git push -u origin --all  Sometimes it s the only thing you need to avoid this problem  It asks you for the admin system password - the one you can make login to your machine -  and that s what you need to push - or commit  if it is the case

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Check the repository        git remote -v  origin  ssh   git example com 2283 srv git repo git  fetch  origin  ssh   git example com 2283 srv git repo git  push    Note that there is a  git   substring here  it instructs git to authenticate as username  git  on the remote server  If you omit this line  git will authenticate under different username  hence this error will occur

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OK - turns out it was a permissions problem on GitHub that happened during the fork of emi bixo to bixo bixo  Once Tekkub fixed these  it started working again

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This happened to me when I tried to git pull  Some analysis showed that somebody had commited with root in the past  thereby creating some objects with root ownership in  git objects   So I ran  cd  lt repo gt  la  git objects    and that showed root ownership for some objects  directories  like this   user host  repo gt  la  git objects  total 540 drwxr-xr-x 135 user user 4096 Jun 16 16 29   drwxr-xr-x   8 user user 4096 Jun 16 16 33    drwxr-xr-x   2 user user 4096 Mar  1 17 28 01 drwxr-xr-x   2 user user 4096 Mar  1 17 28 02 drwxr-xr-x   2 user user 4096 Jun 16 16 27 03 drwxr-xr-x   2 user user 4096 Mar  3 13 22 04 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Jun 16 16 29 05 drwxr-xr-x   2 user user 4096 Jun 16 16 28 07 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Jun 16 16 29 08   Then I ran  sudo chown -R user user  git objects    and it worked   I was replacing user with my real user  of course

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Nothing of the above worked for me  A couple of hours later I found the reason for the problem  I used a repo url of the type   ssh   git example com  git repo git    Unfortunately I stored a putty session with the name example com which was configured to login as user myOtherUser    So  while I thought git connects to the host example com with the User  git   Git TortoiseGit has connected to the putty session example com which uses the User myOtherUser  This leads to the exact same   insufficient permission   error  cause both users are in different groups    Solution  Rename the putty session example com to myOtherUse example com

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This works   sudo chmod -R gituser gituser objects

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you can using this  sudo chown -R  USER  USER    git rev-parse --show-toplevel   git

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Try to do following   Go to your Server      cd rep git     chmod -R g ws       chgrp -R git       git config core sharedRepository true   Then go to your working copy local repository  and repack it by git repack master  Works perfectly to me

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