WARNING: Could not find execute 'git fetch'.

JosephWithCOR

Just entering the admin_update.php (first time since Tuesday last week) WARNING: Could not find execute 'git fetch'.

Error details:- error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects fatal: failed to write object fatal: unpack-objects failed

Things to check: Is Git installed? Is the Git origin/remote correct? Are web server file permissions too strict?

Seek support on the Forum if required - include relevant PHP error logs & ITFlow debug output

Most of the permissions for the directories under .git/objects were root:root - changed to www-data:www-data and the error message changed to another folder under .git/.

Not sure what happened, but I ended up resetting the owner on .git to www-data:www-data.

Just a heads up in case anyone else has this issue.

johnny

Its possible you may have ran git pull as root which will change the permissions to root

JosephWithCOR

It wasn't all files or folders under ./.git. I don't update itflow but through the website.

I don't normally log into the server but every couple of weeks to pull system updates.

wrongecho

JosephWithCOR Who does your nightly Cron job run under? We do a soft update check as part of that, which may be breaking things here..

johnny

that is weird, we'll keep an eye on it to see if it does it again on next update.

JosephWithCOR

@wrongecho Sorry for the delayed response.

0 1 * * * root php /var/www/html/cron.php key-goes-here

5 1 * * * root php /var/www/html/cron_domain_refresher.php key-goes-here

10 1 * * * root php /var/www/html/cron_certificate_refresher.php key-goes-here

It has been setup this way since since being setup over a year ago.

wrongecho

JosephWithCOR

Yeah I wonder if root is setting the file permissions via the Cron nightly update check but if it's always been this way then I'm not so sure.

Maybe let's just see if it happens again before suggesting you change anything. We're looking to move to a CLI based update system for what it's worth.