Git克隆产生错误的数据包长度错误

Question

I have trouble pulling a git repository via ssh on Windows. The repository is on a GitLab Server. I do the following steps:

1. create a public key with ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "my@email.here"
2. save the keys in C:\\Users\\myUserName\\.ssh\\keyName
3. run the output of ssh-agent (ie export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; ...)
4. run ssh-add and add the key in C:\\Users\\myUserName\\.ssh\\keyName
5. add the public key in GitLab.

The same setup works fine on my Linux and on the Windows machines of my colleagues. When i try to clone a repository with git clone I get the following error:

Disconnecting: Bad packet length 1397966893. fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

I tried to google it, but i found nothing appropriate. Does somebody know if i may have made a mistake or that the bug may be server-side?

EDIT:I get the following debug output:

C:\Users\Johannes\Documents\GitHub> ssh -vT -p 80 git@random.secret.sever.de
OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
debug1: Reading configuration data /c/Users/Johannes/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to random.secret.sever.de [192.44.1.37] port 80.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Johannes/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Johannes/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Johannes/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1.1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1.1 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.6
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
Disconnecting: Bad packet length 1397966893.

EDIT 2: Looks like my problem is based in my hard- and software setup. Just did the same steps in parallel and it worked on the other computer.

Answer 1

Found the cause for my problem by accident. I tried to use an old trick and started a System Recovery to undo my Git installation. It failed because of my Virus Scanner. After uninstalling Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition it worked. Incoming SSH2 messages were blocked (got Windows 8 Pro) which caused the bad packet length error. Anyway, thanks for your support!

Answer 2

save the keys in C:\\Users\\myUserName\\.ssh\\keyName

Your local ssh command would look for ssh keys in %HOME%\\.ssh\\id_rsa(.pub) .

So you need to either:

• rename the local files representing your ssh (public and private) keys

• or reference those through a %HOME%\\.ssh\\config which can reference the exact name of your private key (with an IdentityFile directive ).

   Host gitlab user git hostname your.gitlab.server.com IdentityFile C:\\user\\YourUsername\\.ssh\\keyName 

In the second case, the ssh url would be gitlab:yourRepo .