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git-fast-import crashes

From
SLShun Kei Leung <kevinlsk@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 12, 2007, 09:42 UTC
Message-ID
<e66701d40710120242p6fc05148hd40d19d295373ac4@mail.gmail.com>
Hi all,

I am using git 1.5.3.4.206.g58ba4-dirty on Mac OS X 10.4. When I tried to run `git-p4 rebase', it failed with a broken pipe to `git-fast-import'. I gather the following from GDB. I am kind of stuck. Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x64617469
in_window (win=0x5004d0, offset=3501) at sha1_file.c:701
701             off_t win_off = win->offset;
(gdb) bt
#0  in_window (win=0x5004d0, offset=3501) at sha1_file.c:701
#1  0x0000a7b0 in use_pack (p=0x500740, w_cursor=0xbfffd328,
offset=3501, left=0xbfffd2c8) at sha1_file.c:728
#2  0x0000aaa0 in unpack_object_header (p=0x64617461, w_curs=0x0,
curpos=0xbfffd330, sizep=0xbffff4ec) at sha1_file.c:1329
#3  0x0000e17c in unpack_entry (p=0x500740, obj_offset=3501,
type=0xbffff4e8, sizep=0xbffff4ec) at sha1_file.c:1591
#4  0x0000dc8c in read_packed_sha1 (sha1=0x64617461 <Address
0x64617461 out of bounds>, type=0xbffff4e8, size=0xbffff4ec) at
sha1_file.c:1811
#5  0x0000dd90 in read_sha1_file (sha1=0xbffff4f0
")S??=?P\r?6[?w?S[\021\004??", type=0xbffff4e8, size=0xbffff4ec) at
sha1_file.c:1877
#6  0x0000e020 in read_object_with_reference (sha1=0x100950b
")S??=?P\r?6[?w?S[\021\004??", required_type_name=0x0,
size=0xbffff578, actual_sha1_return=0x100950b
")S??=?P\r?6[?w?S[\021\004??") at sha1_file.c:1906
#7  0x0000450c in cmd_from_existing (b=0x10094c0) at fast-import.c:1922
#8  0x00004b3c in cmd_from (b=0x10094c0) at fast-import.c:1965
#9  0x000078a0 in cmd_new_commit () at fast-import.c:2044
#10 0x000088f0 in main (argc=213252, argv=0xbffff838) at fast-import.c:2329
(gdb) print win
$1 = (struct pack_window *) 0x5004d0
(gdb) print *win
$2 = {
  next = 0x64617461,
  base = 0x20333936 <Address 0x20333936 out of bounds>,
  offset = 22523564414626158,
  len = 1685026675,
  last_used = 795894075,
  inuse_cnt = 0
}

Regards, Kevin Leung

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