error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11

Question

I have installed github version 0.8.4, but when i try to fetch something from git, it is showing this message.

Fetching all tracking branches from Queue-iOS completed successfully.  command: git fetch Queue-iOS  error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11 error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11 error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11 error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11 From https://github.com/appstute/Queue-iOS    59bb075..b2da838  master     -> Queue-iOS/master 

It is a problem regarding keychain, when i go for pull from git hub, the following message is displayed

Pulling all tracking branches from Queue-iOS encountered an error.  command: git pull Queue-iOS  error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11 error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11 error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11 error: git-credential-osxkeychain died of signal 11 You asked to pull from the remote 'Queue-iOS', but did not specify a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.  error = 1 

Here Queue-iOS is the local folder I have configured on git. Please help.

Answer 1

I am using Mac OS X 10.7.5. I recently downloaded git 1.8.1.2 for Mac. Having it installed, I bumped into the same signal 11 error message when running:

$git credential-osxkeychain

which in turn runs:

/usr/local/git/bin/git-credential-osxkeychain

Signal 11 is SEGFAULT which might indicate a bug (e.g. dereferencing a null pointer) with the git-credential-osxkeychain program.

I followed instructions on caching your github password and grabbed a new copy of git-credential-osxkeychain from S3. That resolved the problem. The new copy is of different size which makes me guess the bug has been patched.

In the meantime, I believe using a URL like [email protected]:yang3wei/octopress-3-in-one in the config should also work around the problem as it bypasses HTTPS and uses SSH instead where the key chain helper is not invoked any more.