[darcs-users] Darcs segfault

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
>> I've just scp (secure copied) a darcs repo from an powerpc-linux
>> (big endian) machine to a x86_64-linux machine (little endian)
>> and now "darcs whatsnew -s" is segfaulting (strace below).
>>
>> Is this a known issue?
>
> Sorry, darcs 2.4.4 from Debian.

Almost certainly caused by _darcs/index - try just removing that.

I'm not sure if later versions make a check on endianness/bit size before 
reading the file, but we should add one if not.

Ganesh