On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 01:07:00PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 01:02:28PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 05:50:28PM +0200, Jonas Thiel wrote: > > > A while ago I have described my problem with Homebrew at the following > > > GitHub channel > > > (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/2970). In the > > > meanwhile, I believe that I my problem with Homebrew is based on an > > > issues with my Git. I have found the attached Git Crash reports on my > > > Mac and because I am not familiar with reading/analysing Crash > > > Reports, it would be great if someone could give me some feedback on > > > it. > > > > > > If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me. > > > > From your crash reports I see that git is apparently crashing in a > > strchr() call from within ident_default_email() which is a function that > > tries to assemble a name and email to put into your commits. > > BTW, here is the callstack inlined from the crashreport: > > bsystem_platform.dylib 0x00007fff840db41c _platform_strchr$VARIANT$Haswell + 28 > 1 git 0x000000010ba1d3f4 ident_default_email + 801 > 2 git 0x000000010ba1d68f fmt_ident + 66 > 3 git 0x000000010ba4b495 files_log_ref_write + 175 > 4 git 0x000000010ba4b0a6 commit_ref_update + 106 > 5 git 0x000000010ba4c3a8 ref_transaction_commit + 468 > 6 git 0x000000010b994dd8 s_update_ref + 271 > 7 git 0x000000010b994556 fetch_refs + 1969 > 8 git 0x000000010b9935f2 fetch_one + 1913 > 9 git 0x000000010b992bc4 cmd_fetch + 549 > 10 git 0x000000010b9666c4 handle_builtin + 478 > 11 git 0x000000010b96602f main + 376 > 12 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff834ef5ad start + 1 > > Maybe someone else has an idea what might be causing this... The only strchr I can see that could be called here is in canonical_name(), where it's called with addrinfo::ai_canonname. Searching for OS X and ai_canonname, leads me straight back to this list, although 7 years ago! I think ident.c needs a fix similar to commit 3e8a00a (daemon.c: fix segfault on OS X, 2009-04-27); from the commit message there: On OS X (and maybe other unices), getaddrinfo(3) returns NULL in the ai_canonname field if it's called with an IP address for the hostname.