Gitea ist Kaput

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Gitea went kaput. Just up and stopped working one day. I came back from the BWCA and noticed none of my automated builds had succeeded:

The errors were all about “back pack header”

I tried many things - restarting Kubernetes, docker, upgrading the container image. All the things that usually ‘unstuck’ a Gitea instance just weren’t.

Any local pull or clone would fail

builder@DESKTOP-QADGF36:~/Workspaces/fbsnew$ git pull
fatal: protocol error: bad pack header

It wasn’t disk space

Git on Fresh/Brewed

Gitea ist Kaput