Bash should probably be compiled with --disable-nls to workaround. More generally this problem is described here: http://sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2017/6/5/Objective-C_and_fork_in_macOS_1013.html and here: https://wefearchange.org/2018/11/forkmacos.rst.html and here: https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/why-ruby-app-servers-break-on-macos-high-sierra-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/
It's not a gettext issue. It's just like calling malloc in a signal handler. Or backtrace to catch that SIGSEGV if you aren't careful. LOL. Thanks. On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 2:08 AM Baerenblau via macports-users < macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote: > Indeed, $LANG is the root cause (any of $LC_* is not set). Unset of $LANG > or LANG=en_US.UTF-8 helps in my environment, setting it to e.g. "C" does > not help. > > At least a workaround :-) > > Issue #41248 was created 10 years ago but it didn't happen for me until I > upgraded to the current or previous Macos version. > > Thanks! > > Am 24.04.24 um 23:42 schrieb Rainer Müller: > > On 24.04.24 18:33, Baerenblau via macports-users wrote: > >> I'm on macOS 14.4.1 (23E224) and continue to experience a long standing > problem with bash from Macports > >> > >> % which bash > >> /opt/local/bin/bash > >> > >> % bash --version > >> GNU bash, Version 5.2.26(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin23.2.0) > >> > >> For every command which is not found a error similar error like this is > printed: > >> > >> $ asdf > >> objc[1321]: +[__SwiftNativeNSStringBase initialize] may have been in > progress in another thread when fork() was called. > >> objc[1321]: +[__SwiftNativeNSStringBase initialize] may have been in > progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it > or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a > breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug. > >> Abort trap: 6 > >> > >> Xcode has been installed today. Then MacPorts has been updated to the > latest version, machine is rebooted, issue continues to exist. > > > > This is indeed a very long standing issue: > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/41248 > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/68638 > > > > It appears that this crash is actually caused by gettext, when > localizing the error message in the child process forked by bash. > > > > Rainer >
