Re: 'git stash list' => Segmentation fault

From: Brendan Boerner <bboerner.biz@gmail.com>
Date: May 29, 2019, 20:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKkfZL385B99fJ10V-yXVK3KpHNNA-fpM31zwvsBrfr02pD3jw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190528213912.GH24650@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hey Jeff,

Yes, if I install gettext build from source envsubst and gettext no segfaults. tset from ncurses segfaults as well unless I install from source.

So weird breakage which manifested as a red herring. :-(

Thanks for your help helping me sort it out.

Regards, Brendan

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 4:39 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 04:29:13PM -0500, Brendan Boerner wrote:
>
> > To answer your previous question I'm using git v2.21.0. I'm using the
> > Ubuntu 14.04 PPA as well as Linuxbew (also v2.21.0).
> >
> > Your help helped me narrow this down to linuxbrew. Take it out of my
> > path no segfault.
> >
> > Uninstall linuxbrew git, linuxbrew still in PATH, use PPA git, segfault.
> >
> > Narrowed down further to be the "gettext" package - remove it from
> > linuxbrew and PPA git stash list => no segfault.
> >
> > I'll ping the Linuxbrew folks.
>
> Ah, that makes sense. You're indeed running the shell version, and it's
> invoking "gettext" for messages, which is probably what's segfaulting.
> And that explains the multiple segfaults and the fact that they didn't
> actually cause the overall operation to fail.
>
> So probably nothing here for Git to fix. Thanks for following up with
> the resolution!
>
> -Peff