Re: Git crash in Ubuntu 12.04

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:50:31 +0530
Sivaram Kannan [off-list ref] wrote:

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Output of coredump gdb:

gitadmin@gitserver:/var/crash/dump$ gdb git CoreDump
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2.1) 7.4-2012.04
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are
free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for
details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/git...(no debugging symbols
found)...done. BFD: Warning: /var/crash/dump/CoreDump is truncated:
expected core file size >= 600195072, found: 1114112.

^^^ Try to issue the

$ ulimit -c unlimited

command in your shell before attempting the cloning -- this should
remove the upper limit on the core file size.  And try look for the core
file in the current directory after the crash occurs.  I'm not sure
Ubuntu's "crash interceptor" won't kick in, but just in case...