From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:22:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git-apply segfault.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602101120440.19172@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060210183745.GI22611@redhat.com>



On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000003287f73474 in memset () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0000003287f6c92a in calloc () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #2  0x0000000000407399 in read_cache () at read-cache.c:537

Ouch. Looks like malloc heap corruption.

> git on hera is 1.1.6-1

Can you try running "valgrind" on it? That should show what corrupts the 
heap.

		Linus