Re: Bug report: gitk is no longer working on my OSX machine

From: Dan Lew <dlew@atlassian.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2021, 18:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CALmLNPTUSJvxKwDVJViZ7qETP5nGBUftdeHjEX9U7coT0Ve8yQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALmLNPQAKzzzAUPhejvcF7SEvq4zGDDqkm6HaVi9pAfB0JjoLQ@mail.gmail.com>

I have managed to figure out how to fix the issue - I removed my ~/.config/git/gitk. Upon recreation, everything worked fine.

I ran a diff between the old and the new file and discovered the issue was this line in the gitk configuration:

``` set geometry(state) zoomed ```

If you change "zoomed" to "normal" then gitk works again.

I don't know enough about git-gui internals to help more than this, but it looks like the "zoomed" state is broken somehow.

-Dan

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 1:57 PM Dan Lew <dlew@atlassian.com> wrote:

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>
> Hello,
> Would love some help, having trouble getting gitk up and running again...
>
> Here's the details from `git bugreport`:
>
> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
>
> 1. Open any git repository directory in a terminal.
> 2. Run `gitk`
>
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
>
> gitk opens
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
>
> gitk crashes with the following error message on the command line:
>
> objc[33662]: autorelease pool page 0x7fb1070a3000 corrupted
>   magic     0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>   should be 0xa1a1a1a1 0x4f545541 0x454c4552 0x21455341
>   pthread   0x10b020dc0
>   should be 0x10b020dc0
>
> An error window also pops up saying that "wish quit unexpectedly."
>
> What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
>
> It shouldn't crash.
>
> Anything else you want to add:
>
> I'm using git/git-gui as installed by brew on OSX>
>
> If I run `gitk` where outside of a git repository, then it opens fine
> (and shows the "Cannot find a git repository here" error.
>
> gitk has run fine on this computer for years; I don't know what
> suddenly changed to make it stop working.
>
> [System Info]
> git version 2.30.0
> cpu: x86_64
> no commit associated with this build
> sizeof-long: 8
> sizeof-size_t: 8
> shell-path: /bin/sh
> uname: Darwin 19.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Tue Nov 10 00:10:30
> PST 2020; root:xnu-6153.141.10~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
> compiler info: clang: 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.28)
> libc info: no libc information available
> $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh
>
>
> [Enabled Hooks]