From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:42:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git checkout crashes after server being updated to Debian X86_64
Message-ID: <1c70da04-d26b-f0af-8939-edc96de586d9@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <6B2BE996-F696-4EB4-91CA-849D40B8802D@gmail.com>

Am 18.10.2016 um 17:17 schrieb Raffael Reichelt:
> Hello!
>
> I have a serious problem with git, After my provider had updated to a
> X86_64 architecture git crashes with various memory-related errors.
> This is happening remote when pushing to the repository from my local
> machine as well as trying it on a shell on the server itself.
>
> This are the error-messages:
>
> fatal: Out of memory, realloc failed
> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
>
> or
> fatal: unable to create threaded lstat
> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
> or
> fatal: unable to create threaded lstat
> *** Error in `git': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000000a8ade0 ***
> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
> Aborted
>
> It’s obviously not a problem of the repository - happens with all of
> them. I think it is also not a question of size - happens with a 80M
> Repository as well as with a 500M one.
>
> Any way: did a
>
> git fsck
> Prüfe Objekt-Verzeichnisse: 100% (256/256), Fertig.
> Prüfe Objekte: 100% (56305/56305), Fertig.
>
> git gc --auto --prune=today —aggressive
> git repack
>
> Additionally I played around some config parameters  so my config now looks like:
> [http]
>     postbuffer = 524288000
> [pack]
>     threads = 1
>     deltaCacheSize = 128m
>     packSizeLimit = 128m
>     windowMemory = 128m
> [core]
>     packedGitLimit = 128m
>     packedGitWindowSize = 128m
>     repositoryformatversion = 0
>     filemode = true
>     bare = true
>
> I am running
> git version 2.1.4
>
> on
> Linux infongp-de65 3.14.0-ui16196-uiabi1-infong-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.73-2~ui80+4 (2016-07-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Anyone out there to help me getting out of this trouble?

Git 2.1.4 is the version that comes with Debian stable according to 
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/git, so I guess using a more recent 
version is not a reasonable option.

What do "file $(which git)" and "ulimit -a" return?  Do you have an 
x86-64 binary and no unnecessarily low limits set?

René