fatal: git upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.

Note: if someone feels that this can be better answered via the normal help channels please let me know, but as I cannot find a Gitlab-specific fix for this I am reporting as an issue.

Has anyone seen this issue before? Tried searching but could only find fixes for vanilla git setups. I have a large repo that I'm trying to pull from Gitlab and when I do a clone I'm getting the following error:

remote: Counting objects: 1193, done.
error: pack-objects died of signal 9027/1045)
error: git upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.
fatal: git upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

Normally I would start with a solution like git fsck --full or try changing window size as per this link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4170317/git-pull-error-remote-object-is-corrupted

However this isn't easily done with an omnibus install.