bt won't help much: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000000000047e62f in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x000000000047e62f in ?? () #1 0x000000000047e6ba in ?? () #2 0x000000000043cb9a in ?? () #3 0x000000000043e9cc in ?? () #4 0x000000000040647d in ?? () #5 0x0000000000405863 in ?? () #6 0x00007ffff6fc3be5 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #7 0x0000000000405cd5 in ?? () $ git --version git version 1.8.4.5 $ rpm -q -a|grep '^git' git-email-1.8.4.5-3.8.4.x86_64 gitg-0.2.7-3.1.4.x86_64 git-cvs-1.8.4.5-3.8.4.x86_64 git-svn-1.8.4.5-3.8.4.x86_64 git-web-1.8.4.5-3.8.4.x86_64 git-gui-1.8.4.5-3.8.4.x86_64 gitg-lang-0.2.7-3.1.4.noarch git-1.8.4.5-3.8.4.x86_64 git-core-1.8.4.5-3.8.4.x86_64 gitk-1.8.4.5-3.8.4.x86_64 $ head -n 300 /etc/*eleas* ==> /etc/SuSE-release <== openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) VERSION = 13.1 CODENAME = Bottle # /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead ==> /etc/lsb-release <== LSB_VERSION="core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.2-x86_64:core-4.0-x86_64" ==> /etc/lsb-release.d <== head: error reading '/etc/lsb-release.d': Is a directory ==> /etc/os-release <== NAME=openSUSE VERSION="13.1 (Bottle)" VERSION_ID="13.1" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)" ID=opensuse ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"; HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/"; ID_LIKE="suse" On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> $ git format-patch -o patches --ignore-if-in-upstream >> 14949fa8f39d29e44b43f4332ffaf35f11546502..2de9eef391259dfc8748dbaf76a5d55427f37b0d >> Segmentation fault >> /u/gnu/proj/gnu-pw-mgr >> $ git format-patch -o patches >> 14949fa8f39d29e44b43f4332ffaf35f11546502..2de9eef391259dfc8748dbaf76a5d55427f37b0d >> patches/0001-remove-dead-code.patch >> patches/0002-dead-code-removal.patch >> patches/0003-add-sort-pw-cfg-program.patch >> patches/0004-add-doc-for-sort-pw-cfg.patch >> patches/0005-clean-up-doc-makefile.patch >> patches/0006-clean-up-doc-makefile.patch >> patches/0007-happy-2015-and-add-delete-option.patch >> patches/0008-fix-doc-Makefile.am.patch >> patches/0009-re-fix-copyright.patch >> patches/0010-finish-debugging-remove_pwid.patch >> patches/0011-only-update-file-if-something-was-removed.patch >> patches/0012-update-NEWS.patch >> patches/0013-bootstrap-cleanup.patch > > Could you tell us which git version you are using? You can use "git --version". > The operating system you are using could also be useful. > And maybe you could also run git under gdb and give us the output of > the "bt" (backtrace) gdb command when it crashes? > > Thanks, > Christian. -- 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