Re: Recent gits corrupts repository

From: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Date: Oct 27, 2011, 07:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CAA787rmRqacu62O0Mzo4QYT=7FeB92QPvFUCuSBJ5__KMw92pA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqk47qc40s.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On 27 October 2011 09:00, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> writes:
> >   $ git status
> >   git: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr)
> > (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct
> > malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size)
> > >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk,
> > fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t)))
> > - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end &
> > pagemask) == 0)' failed.
> >   Aborted
>
> This looks very much like
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184094
>
> for which a patch is pending in "next":
>
>  8f41c07 read-cache.c: fix index memory allocation

Argh, that was some wasted hours, should have searched the mailing list first. But hey, I'm not complaining. :) Glad there's a fix coming up. I cherry-picked 8f41c07, and it seems to work nicely. Thanks.

Regards, Øyvind