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?

user846316 · Answer 1 · 2019-02-20T03:11:09.553

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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

edited Feb 20 '19 at 03:11

answered Dec 22 '15 at 11:25

user846316

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Could you explain what this is doing and why it works? – Sean Dunford Oct 02 '17 at 21:25
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"[gc] Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase performance) and removing unreachable objects which may have been created from prior invocations of git add." -https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gc – Ian Wise Jan 19 '18 at 02:53
Worked! Thanks a lot! – Chasen Bettinger Jul 22 '19 at 16:48
Surprisingly also worked for me! (This was after I returned to using an old machine of mine at work.) – Fawntasia Jan 17 '20 at 23:23
I'm assuming you guys just ran it on the remote? – solstice333 Jun 15 '21 at 21:08

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '17 at 11:21

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

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 08 '15 at 09:33

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.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 17 '19 at 06:06

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This may be due to outdated git dependency library.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

answered Jan 17 '19 at 06:06

Rajan Twanabashu

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score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 21 '17 at 09:26

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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.

answered Sep 21 '17 at 09:26

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