fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer

Question

Can some one help me to get rid of following:

vijay13@ubuntu:~$ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-mediacenter

Cloning into 'plasma-mediacenter'...

fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer

And

vijay13@ubuntu:~$ git clone git@git.kde.org:plasma-mediacenter

Cloning into 'plasma-mediacenter'...

Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

How to get rid of both above issues?

Answer 1

If internet connection is also fine, just run

git gc 

and try again. It cleans up unnecessary files and optimize the local repository. For more details: git documentation

Answer 2

I also have faced with this problem.

The problem is solved when i replace "git://" with "https://"

root@ubuntu:~# git clone git://github.com/osrg/ryu.git
Cloning into 'ryu'...
fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer

root@ubuntu:~# git clone https://github.com/osrg/ryu.git
Cloning into 'ryu'...
remote: Counting objects: 25613, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Receiving objects:  37% (9609/25613), 18.68 MiB | 60.00 KiB/s

Answer 3

This can also be an issue when deleting repos (but not permanently). Make sure the repo is deleted in the trash/ recycling bin before cloning.

Alternatively press SHIFT + DEL to delete a folder/ file permanently.

Answer 4

This may be due to outdated git dependency library. Try updating curl for your operating system.

Answer 5

For me, this issue happened when changed my PHP version to 7.0.10 from 5.6 version in WAMP. for quick solution, reverting the change, fixed my issue back.

Answer 6

For the first issue

vijay13@ubuntu:~$ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-mediacenter

Cloning into 'plasma-mediacenter'...

fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer

Here you are trying to check out a code by using the above command. I even encounter this error : Connection reset by peer when try to check out a code.

It is a problem with your internet connection .

Check your internet connection and try again.

It helped me.

Answer 7

I tried using git config --global http.postBuffer 157286400 but did not work. Then tried one more time and it work so looks like intermittent network issue.