Re: free(): invalid pointer, error: git died of signal 6 and error: git died of signal 11

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2025, 13:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0aZ-Ea96n1Tk9i2dS6ECoCFpyW_FQUVOP8Z2z8_=xXwA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1480fc360e9afd4e2d381e1506624df058355ae6.camel@scientia.org>

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org> wrote:

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> Hey.
>
> I see some weird segfaults on a fresh repo.
> It has just one commit with license files, then branch from master in
> which I have a staged an initial skeleton program.
>
> From there when I do a
>   git dt
> (which is an alias `dt = difftool --dir-diff`) I get most of the time:
>
> $ git dt
> error: git died of signal 11

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> The same happens also on a fresh and empty repo:

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> That's all on Debian unstable, with their git package 1:2.47.2-0.1.

Thanks for your report!

This might have been fixed by commit 98e4015593 (builtin/difftool: intialize some hashmap variables, 2024-11-12) that is part of v2.48.0 and v2.48.1. So you might want to upgrade or maybe patch your version. Let us know if that fixes the issue.

Best, Christian.