The folder has got its owner back to be root.
Tried to find the entity that changes it with no success. Tried cron jobs, init script and hooks.

File permissions fixed by (Thanks!) on Gerrit server.

Ok, with the local file permission change, adding a repo now worked.

The problem with Gerrit is that its not managed by puppet, so all changes
are done locally (for e.g the hooks for the projects that are under git dir.

We need to puppetize it soon and move all hooks and gerrit conf to
git/puppet in order to track all changes.
There is already a ticket opened on it, we'll need to prioritize it seeing
how critical gerrit is and how often we need to update hooks.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Marc Dequènes (Duck) (oVirt JIRA) <

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I see nothing in history or Puppet rules explaining these wrong (altered at some point in time) permissions.

So this fails in createProject(), in repoManager.createRepository() IIUC (not a Java dev).

Nothing was created into /usr/local/src/git/, so this confirms it failed somehow.

1. ls -ld /usr/local/src/git
   drwxr-xr-x. 86 root root 4096 Mar 18 22:34 /usr/local/src/git

I suppose this is the root of the problem. Fixed permissions, could you retry?

sshd_log says:
[2016-08-17 05:44:03,151 -0400] 8610a532 bkorren a/1000607 LOGIN FROM 82.81.161.50
[2016-08-17 05:44:03,596 0400] 8610a532 bkorren a/1000607 gerrit.create-project.empty-commit.-owner.infra-ansible.foobar 0ms 3ms 1
[2016-08-17 05:44:03,903 -0400] 8610a532 bkorren a/1000607 LOGOUT

nothing else in the logs, no error in error_log at this time.

Does not seem missing permissions as you suggested in your mail, or you would most probably have the same message I got:
Capability createProject is required to access this resource