Re: git status & seg.fault

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:45, Rado Dr. [off-list ref] wrote:

there is output:
Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/git...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/git status
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
hash_index_entry (istate=<value optimized out>, ce=0xb7c00c90) at name-hash.c:44
44              hash = hash_name(ce->name, ce_namelen(ce));
(gdb) bt full
#0  hash_index_entry (istate=<value optimized out>, ce=0xb7c00c90) at
name-hash.c:44
       pos = <value optimized out>
       hash = 3198509075
#1  0x080dde47 in lazy_init_name_hash (istate=0x8194180,
name=0xbfffb34b "src/FotoPlusServer/build.xml", namelen=28, icase=0)
   at name-hash.c:59
       nr = 16273
#2  index_name_exists (istate=0x8194180, name=0xbfffb34b
"src/FotoPlusServer/build.xml", namelen=28, icase=0) at
name-hash.c:108
       hash = <value optimized out>
       ce = <value optimized out>
#3  0x080cf190 in dir_add_name (dir=<value optimized out>, base=<value
optimized out>, baselen=<value optimized out>, check_only=0,
   simplify=0x0) at dir.c:449
No locals.

I haven't tried to grok all that, but you'd get a better backtrace if
you compiled git with debug flags, e.g.:

    make CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb3"

And then did gdb ./git .... Sorry for not mentioning it to begin with.