git http gives error: git-http-push died of signal 11

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I've set up git as an http application as per the instructions at: http://docs.webfaction.com/software/git.html

I've set receivepack to true and postBuffer to 524288000

I can authenticate and pull from the repository over https. But when I push, I get the following error after being asked to authenticate twice. I am able to log into https://git.alk.io and the authentication works, as well as when I do a git pull. The error_git_php.log is giving me a "Password Mismatch" error.

I'm running git 1.8.0.1 on OS X 10.6.8 (snow leopard)

git pull log (completes successfully)

$ git pull --verbose
Password for 'https://polastre@git.alk.io': 
From https://git.alk.io/repos/alkio
 = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master
Already up-to-date.

git push log

git push --verbose
Pushing to https://polastre@git.alk.io/repos/alkio.git
Password for 'https://polastre@git.alk.io': 
Password for 'https://polastre@git.alk.io': 
error: git-http-push died of signal 11
fatal: git-http-push failed

error_git_php.log -- Note the two password prompts above, but only 1 password failure appears in the log file.

[Sun Dec 09 02:07:25 2012] [error] [client <ip hidden>] user polastre: authentication failure for "/repos/alkio.git/info/refs": Password Mismatch

Accepted Answer

I believe that the problem may be your git repo URLs are incorrect. It looks like:

You're pulling from https://git.alk.io/repos/alkio, but you're pushing to https://polastre@git.alk.io/repos/alkio.git
Your URLs include "/repos"

As per our git documentation, you normally would use a URL like this:

git clone https://git.alk.io/alkio.git

then push with "git push origin master" the first time (ensuring that a master branch exists), and "git push" afterward. Note that in your first URL, the ".git" extension was missing.

If you continue to experience trouble, you can open a support ticket and allow us to try cloning your repository and pushing a trivial change to see if we can reproduce the problem for further investigation. Hope that helps!

git http gives error: git-http-push died of signal 11

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