Hi, Has there been any further progress on this. I just encountered a SEGV with a git apply. This is the latest git version running on Ubuntu 13.04 cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=raring DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.04" uname -a Linux sam-mac 3.8.0-20-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 6 17:03:32 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux git --version git version 1.8.2.2 samueldoyle@sam-MacBookPro:~/Projects/VMware/perforce_repos/esx50u3ps$ sudo gdb /usr/bin/git core GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.91.20130417-cvs-ubuntu Copyright (C) 2013 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://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/git...(no debugging symbols found)...done. [New LWP 28634] warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x7fff94d1a000 Core was generated by `git apply --verbose --check --ignore-whitespace --directory=/home/sam/P'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 __strlen_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../strlen.S:31 31 ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../strlen.S: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt 10 #0 __strlen_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../strlen.S:31 #1 0x00007f06ba7c28c6 in __GI___strdup (s=0x0) at strdup.c:41 #2 0x00000000004f4449 in ?? () #3 0x000000000040eab0 in ?? () #4 0x000000000040f6f5 in ?? () #5 0x0000000000405a88 in ?? () #6 0x0000000000404ee2 in ?? () #7 0x00007f06ba75aea5 in __libc_start_main (main=0x404e30, argc=7, ubp_av=0x7fff94c3bd08, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fff94c3bcf8) at libc-start.c:260 #8 0x0000000000405329 in ?? () A quick search turned up this post that appears to provide the cause: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3608931/why-is-this-program-segfaulting -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Segmentation-fault-with-latest-git-070c57df-tp7576614p7585906.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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