what's wrong with git clone? index-pack died of signal 99 error

Question

this issue is different from Git push "error: index-pack died of signal 9"

the error message is as follows:

remote: Counting objects: 40512, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8896/8896), done.
remote: Total 40512 (delta 31079), reused 40394 (delta 30980)
Receiving objects: 100% (40512/40512), 6.05 MiB | 22 KiB/s, done.
error: index-pack died of signal 99)   
fatal: index-pack failed

real    1292050m43.682s
user    0m23.645s
sys     0m5.872s

one more case:

remote: Counting objects: 18389, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4951/4951), done.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly MiB | 22 KiB/s      
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

real    7m18.359s
user    0m4.448s
sys     0m1.860s

Solution

This is a loss of network connectivity more than likely - error 99 is coming from your ssh

Connection Closed By Remote Host 

Try with

GIT_TRACE=1 git clone REPO new_dir

That will let you know exactly where it is timing out.