Subject: bug#547: git: cloning a https repo gets stuck in an infinite loop

From: Kalle Sandström <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:26:02 +0200

Package: git
Version: 1:2.30.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Attempting

    git clone https://tildegit.org/solene/vger.git

... puts "git-remote-https" into a perpetual spin and never proceeds.

Cloning the repo on a different computer on the same network (amd64, running an
earlier version of git) works immediately.

Causing a coredump and reading the backtrace indicates that execution is stuck
in `_nettle_chacha_core' of libnettle.so.8, and upgrading the `libnettle8'
package to 3.7-2 does not solve the problem.

This problem has existed for more than a year now, i.e. from before the
pandemic.

Regards,
  -KS

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0.0 (jessie)
Release:	1.0.0
Codename:	jessie
Architecture: i686

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages git depends on:
ii  git-man          1:2.30.0-1
ii  libc6            2.31-9
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.74.0-1
ii  liberror-perl    0.17-1.1
ii  libexpat1        2.2.10-1
ii  libpcre2-8-0     10.32-5+b1
ii  perl             5.30.3-4
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

Versions of packages git recommends:
ii  ca-certificates              20210119
ii  less                         481-2.1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:8.4p1-3
ii  patch                        2.7.6-6

Versions of packages git suggests:
ii  gettext-base                          0.19.3-2
pn  git-cvs                               <none>
pn  git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit  <none>
ii  git-doc                               1:2.23.0-1
pn  git-el                                <none>
pn  git-email                             <none>
pn  git-gui                               <none>
pn  git-mediawiki                         <none>
pn  git-svn                               <none>
ii  gitk                                  1:2.30.0-1
pn  gitweb                                <none>

-- no debconf information

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:03:09 +0000

Control: tags -1 moreinfo debian

Kalle,

Thanks for this.

Firstly, git is not a forked package and Devuan uses Debian's packages directly
without recompilation. So in principle this issue should be reported to Debian's
BTS.

However, I cannot reproduce this behaviour and I am confused about your setup.

> Version: 1:2.30.0-1

This is the testing/unstable version, however

> Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0.0 (jessie)

this implies you are running Jessie.

Jessie has been end of life and archived since July 2020.

What suite are you running?

Can you ensure your system is fully up to date, and then try to reproduce the
issue?

Thanks

Mark

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:59:57 +0000

Kalle,

Is this still an issue?

Mark

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