Re: Git crash in Ubuntu 12.04

From: Sivaram Kannan <siva.devel@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2013, 06:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJiNi_GQZf8BRkTR8+j6YjdcqUH1J1NATSrNUjZ=65V+ip6okQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130412180525.aa5b8eacd691a427244d6ab5@domain007.com>

Hi,

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>> > $ ulimit -c unlimited
>>
>> Have set the git user's crash limit to 1GB in
>> /etc/security/limits.conf and still getting the same error when
>> issuing gdb to the crash file.
>
> Yep, suppsedly in Ubuntu it's not that easy to just get a plain old
> coredump file -- see below.
>

Got an proper dump from git this time. See whether it helps. I have setup another machine with Ubuntu 12.04 and updated only git and ported the repo there, after 200 clones no crash so far. Mostly will be moving latest repo to that server to solve this issue.

gitadmin@gitserver:/var/crash/gitcash$ gdb git CoreDump GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2.1) 7.4-2012.04 Copyright (C) 2012 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://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/git...(no debugging symbols found)...done. [New LWP 12823]

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".
Core was generated by `git pack-objects --revs --all --stdout
--progress --delta-base-offset'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x000000000044bb77 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x000000000044bb77 in ?? ()
#1  0x000000000044cb54 in ?? ()
#2  0x000000000044d4f1 in ?? ()
#3  0x0000000000405634 in ?? ()
#4  0x0000000000404a30 in ?? ()
#5  0x00007fe2a149876d in __libc_start_main (main=0x404980, argc=7,
ubp_av=0x7fffad58fb28, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>,
rtld_fini=<optimized out>,
    stack_end=0x7fffad58fb18) at libc-start.c:226
#6  0x0000000000404e65 in ?? ()
#7  0x00007fffad58fb18 in ?? ()
#8  0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#9  0x0000000000000007 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007fffad591c95 in ?? ()
#11 0x00007fffad591c99 in ?? ()
#12 0x00007fffad591ca6 in ?? ()
#13 0x00007fffad591cad in ?? ()
#14 0x00007fffad591cb3 in ?? ()
#15 0x00007fffad591cbc in ?? ()
#16 0x00007fffad591cc7 in ?? ()
#17 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thanks, ./Siva.