A cluster instance reported a commit that is not importing. This is the immediate issue in the daemon log:
Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] [2016-08-24 10:58:30] EXCEPTION: (PhutilProxyException) Error while executing Task ID 161495. {>} (PhutilProxyException) Host returned HTTP/200, but invalid JSON data in response to a Conduit method call. {>} (PhutilJSONParserException) Parse error on line 1 at column 0: Expected one of: 'STRING', 'NUMBER', 'NULL', 'TRUE', 'FALSE', '{', '[' at [<phutil>/src/parser/PhutilJSONParser.php:32] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] arcanist(head=stable, ref.master=b32149495b85, ref.stable=e78618ce225d), libcore(), phabricator(head=stable, ref.master=62e129d7a6d1, ref.stable=b88348a55e35), phutil(head=stable, ref.master=e8eaafe04d64, ref.stable=b6f4e866fdb2), services(head=stable, ref.master=ee889d4725ab, ref.stable=7065cb4fe5fd) Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #0 <#3> PhutilJSONParser::parse(string) called at [<phutil>/src/utils/utils.php:1154] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #1 <#3> phutil_json_decode(string) called at [<phutil>/src/conduit/ConduitFuture.php:48] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #2 <#2> ConduitFuture::didReceiveResult(array) called at [<phutil>/src/future/FutureProxy.php:58] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #3 <#2> FutureProxy::getResult() called at [<phutil>/src/future/FutureProxy.php:35] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #4 <#2> FutureProxy::resolve() called at [<phutil>/src/conduit/ConduitClient.php:64] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #5 <#2> ConduitClient::callMethodSynchronous(string, array) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/diffusion/query/DiffusionQuery.php:83] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #6 <#2> DiffusionQuery::callConduitWithDiffusionRequest(PhabricatorUser, DiffusionGitRequest, string, array) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/differential/engine/DifferentialDiffExtractionEngine.php:45] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #7 <#2> DifferentialDiffExtractionEngine::newDiffFromCommit(PhabricatorRepositoryCommit) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/differential/engine/DifferentialDiffExtractionEngine.php:212] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #8 <#2> DifferentialDiffExtractionEngine::updateRevisionWithCommit(DifferentialRevision, PhabricatorRepositoryCommit, array, PhabricatorDaemonContentSource) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker.php:243] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #9 <#2> PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker::updateCommitData(DiffusionCommitRef) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker.php:42] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #10 <#2> PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker::parseCommit(PhabricatorRepository, PhabricatorRepositoryCommit) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/repository/worker/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitParserWorker.php:51] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #11 <#2> PhabricatorRepositoryCommitParserWorker::doWork() called at [<phabricator>/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/PhabricatorWorker.php:122] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #12 <#2> PhabricatorWorker::executeTask() called at [<phabricator>/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/storage/PhabricatorWorkerActiveTask.php:171] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #13 <#2> PhabricatorWorkerActiveTask::executeTask() called at [<phabricator>/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/PhabricatorTaskmasterDaemon.php:22] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #14 PhabricatorTaskmasterDaemon::run() called at [<phutil>/src/daemon/PhutilDaemon.php:184] Daemon 2010 STDE [Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:58:31 +0000] #15 PhutilDaemon::execute() called at [<phutil>/scripts/daemon/exec/exec_daemon.php:127]
This is probably because of non-UTF8 data in the diff, although I'll confirm this.
If so, the best fix may be to reorient this API to be file-based, as described in T10423. This will also fix behavior for very large diffs. The previous similar changes in connection with T10186 to improve handling of large individual files seem to have worked well.
This is also on the pathway through T11482.
There may be further issues here in the vein of T4045 / T5955, but those are more involved to attack. Switching to a file-based API would sidestep them.