-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ed Schouten wrote: > >> * Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am having problems with the git out of ports .... git-fetch keeps >>> on dumping core when I try update of xorg (the initial checkout works >>> ok). I'm running FreeBSD-current ... does anyone have any idea why >>> this might be? >>> >>> When I try to do a gdb -c corefile on the resulting core image, all i >>> get is a couple of thousand empty stack frames. Any idea why that >>> might be, also? >> >> I'm seeing this on HEAD, not RELENG_6. I don't have a backtrace >> nearby, but it seems to be crash inside free(). > > Application memory errors in HEAD but not in a RELENG_ branch are > frequently a symptom of an application bug unmasked by malloc(3) > debugging enabled in the development branch but not production > branches. It might not hurt to ramp up debugging on your 6.x install to > see if it starts crashing there was well -- see malloc(3) for details, > you'll want to create an appropriate malloc.conf.
This is really replying to my own question, because I found what I was missing. I have'nt done any troubleshooting for a long while now (health, down for some years) and the last time I did it, if you had a core file in the same directory as the binary and the sources, gdb would know where to find the symbols on it's own, but it looks like that's changed. Once I explicitly gave the symbols, th8ings began to work ok, so you can stop worrying about my missing stack frames. Now that I have that, I have also the ability to find out where git-fetch died, and I will pretty quickly, that ought to help some. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIRqVvz62J6PPcoOkRAoKcAJ9c5WFhKf0NkOCgfNFO53jEWpsPUwCdErw4 RY8Ry6WQpgwOKVAPoe+mOUs= =M+hX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"