On Tue, 9 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 May 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > > Junio> This week's "What's in" is a day early, since I do not expect to > > Junio> be able to do much gitting for the rest of the week. > > > > I just got this with the latest, on the git archive, using git-repack -a: > > > > Generating pack... > > Done counting 19151 objects. > > Deltifying 19151 objects. > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > > This is on OpenBSD. Is there a secret sabotage afoot? This is repeatable. > > Is there anything I can try differently? > > Can you see what the traceback is with gdb? > > I'd suspect the deltifier changes, the rabin hash in particular. The core > file traceback would probably point right at the culprit if so. > > I don't see the problem myself, but if it's an access just past the end of > an array or something, it would depend on exactly what the delta pattern > is (which, without the "-f" flag, in turn depends on what your previous > packs looked like) and also on the allocation strategy (which migth > explain why it shows on OpenBSD but Linux people hadn't seen it). When linking with Electric Fence I can reproduce the segfault on Linux as well. Looking into it now. Nicolas - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html