crash during fast-import

[dabrahams]

doing a git bzr clone from a bzr clone of bzr://cedet.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzrroot/cedet/code/trunk

% git bzr clone ~/.emacs.d/el-get/cedet
...
09:45:07 8000/8825 commits exported at 13417/minute 
fatal: Path semantic/ONEWS not in branch
fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_8592
bzr: broken pipe
ERROR:root:bzr export failed
pluto:~/src dave% cd cedet    

Crash report:

fast-import crash report:
    fast-import process: 8592
    parent process     : 8590
    at Thu Sep 27 09:45:15 2012

fatal: Path semantic/ONEWS not in branch

Most Recent Commands Before Crash
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  R speedbar/sb-w3.el obsolete/lisp/speedbar/sb-w3.el
  R speedbar/speedbar.texi doc/texi/speedbar.texi
  R srecode/srecode-android.el lisp/cedet/srecode/android.el
  R srecode/srecode-args.el lisp/cedet/srecode/args.el
  R srecode/srecode-compile.el lisp/cedet/srecode/compile.el
  R srecode/srecode-cpp.el lisp/cedet/srecode/cpp.el
  R srecode/srecode-ctxt.el lisp/cedet/srecode/ctxt.el
  R srecode/srecode-dictionary.el lisp/cedet/srecode/dictionary.el
  R srecode/srecode-document.el lisp/cedet/srecode/document.el
  R srecode/srecode-el.el lisp/cedet/srecode/el.el
  R srecode/srecode-expandproto.el lisp/cedet/srecode/expandproto.el
  R srecode/srecode-extract.el lisp/cedet/srecode/extract.el
  R srecode/srecode-fields.el lisp/cedet/srecode/fields.el
  R srecode/srecode-filters.el lisp/cedet/srecode/filters.el
  R srecode/srecode-find.el lisp/cedet/srecode/find.el
  R srecode/srecode-getset.el lisp/cedet/srecode/getset.el
  R srecode/srecode-insert.el lisp/cedet/srecode/insert.el
  R srecode/srecode-java.el lisp/cedet/srecode/java.el
  R srecode/srecode-m3.el lisp/cedet/srecode/m3.el
  R srecode/srecode-map.el lisp/cedet/srecode/map.el
  R srecode/srecode-mode.el lisp/cedet/srecode/mode.el
  R srecode/srecode-semantic.el lisp/cedet/srecode/semantic.el
  R srecode/srecode-srt.el lisp/cedet/srecode/srt.el
  R srecode/srecode-table.el lisp/cedet/srecode/table.el
  R srecode/srecode-template-mode.el lisp/cedet/srecode/srt-mode.el
  R srecode/srecode-template.el lisp/cedet/srecode/template.el
  R srecode/srecode-template.wy lisp/cedet/srecode/srt.wy
  R srecode/srecode-test-getset.el tests/cedet/srecode/test-getset.el
  R srecode/srecode-test.el tests/cedet/srecode/test.el
  R srecode/srecode-texi.el lisp/cedet/srecode/texi.el
  R srecode/srecode.el lisp/cedet/srecode.el
  R srecode/srecode.texi doc/texi/srecode.texi
  R srecode/templates/Makefile etc/srecode/Makefile
  R srecode/templates/Project.ede etc/srecode/Project.ede
  R srecode/templates/android-java.srt etc/srecode/android-java.srt
  R srecode/templates/arduino-pde.srt etc/srecode/arduino-pde.srt
  R srecode/templates/default.srt etc/srecode/default.srt
  R srecode/templates/document-default.srt etc/srecode/doc-default.srt
  R srecode/templates/proj-test.srt etc/srecode/proj-test.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-cpp.srt etc/srecode/cpp.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-document-cpp.srt etc/srecode/doc-cpp.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-document-java.srt etc/srecode/doc-java.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-el.srt etc/srecode/el.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-getset-cpp.srt etc/srecode/getset-cpp.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-java.srt etc/srecode/java.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-make.srt etc/srecode/make.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-template.srt etc/srecode/template.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-test.srt etc/srecode/test.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-texi.srt etc/srecode/texi.srt
  R srecode/templates/srecode-wisent.srt etc/srecode/wisent.srt
  R cogre/.cvsignore lisp/cedet/cogre/.cvsignore
  R cogre/INSTALL lisp/cedet/cogre/INSTALL
  R cogre/Makefile lisp/cedet/cogre/Makefile
  R cogre/Project.ede lisp/cedet/cogre/Project.ede
  R cogre/cogre-load.el lisp/cedet/cogre/cogre-load.el
  R cogre/picture-hack.el lisp/cedet/cogre/picture-hack.el
  R cogre/templates/Makefile lisp/cedet/cogre/templates/Makefile
  R cogre/templates/Project.ede lisp/cedet/cogre/templates/Project.ede
  R cogre/test.dot lisp/cedet/cogre/test.dot
  R cogre/tests/Project.ede lisp/cedet/cogre/tests/Project.ede
  R cogre/wisent-dot.el lisp/cedet/cogre/wisent-dot.el
  R cogre/wisent-dot.wy lisp/cedet/cogre/wisent-dot.wy
  R ede/.cvsignore lisp/cedet/ede/.cvsignore
  R ede/Makefile lisp/cedet/ede/Makefile
  R ede/Project.ede lisp/cedet/ede/Project.ede
  R ede/README lisp/cedet/ede/README
  R ede/autoconf-edit.el lisp/cedet/ede/autoconf-edit.el
  R ede/ede-arduino.el lisp/cedet/ede/ede-arduino.el
  R ede/ede-compilers.texi lisp/cedet/ede/ede-compilers.texi
  R ede/ede-load.el lisp/cedet/ede/ede-load.el
  R ede/ede-projects.texi lisp/cedet/ede/ede-projects.texi
  R ede/ede-sourcecode.texi lisp/cedet/ede/ede-sourcecode.texi
  R ede/ede-targets.texi lisp/cedet/ede/ede-targets.texi
  R ede/makefile-edit.el lisp/cedet/ede/makefile-edit.el
  R ede/project-am.el lisp/cedet/ede/project-am.el
  R ede/templates/Makefile lisp/cedet/ede/templates/Makefile
  R ede/templates/Project.ede lisp/cedet/ede/templates/Project.ede
  R eieio/.cvsignore lisp/eieio/.cvsignore
  R eieio/INSTALL lisp/eieio/INSTALL
  R eieio/Makefile lisp/eieio/Makefile
  R eieio/Makefile.old lisp/eieio/Makefile.old
  R eieio/NEWS lisp/eieio/NEWS
  R eieio/Project.ede lisp/eieio/Project.ede
  R eieio/chart.el lisp/eieio/chart.el
  R eieio/eieio-base.el lisp/eieio/eieio-base.el
  R eieio/eieio-custom.el lisp/eieio/eieio-custom.el
  R eieio/eieio-datadebug.el lisp/eieio/eieio-datadebug.el
  R eieio/eieio-doc.el lisp/eieio/eieio-doc.el
  R eieio/eieio-load.el lisp/eieio/eieio-load.el
  R eieio/eieio-opt.el lisp/eieio/eieio-opt.el
  R eieio/eieio-speedbar.el lisp/eieio/eieio-speedbar.el
  R eieio/eieio-test-persist.el lisp/eieio/eieio-test-persist.el
  R eieio/eieio-xml.el lisp/eieio/eieio-xml.el
  R eieio/eieio.el lisp/eieio/eieio.el
  R eieio/linemark.el lisp/eieio/linemark.el
  R semantic/.cvsignore lisp/cedet/semantic/.cvsignore
  R semantic/AUTHORS lisp/cedet/semantic/AUTHORS
  R semantic/INSTALL lisp/cedet/semantic/INSTALL
  R semantic/Makefile lisp/cedet/semantic/Makefile
* R semantic/ONEWS lisp/cedet/semantic/ONEWS

Active Branch LRU
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    active_branches = 1 cur, 5 max

  pos  clock name

1. 8704 refs/heads/bzr/master

Inactive Branches

refs/heads/bzr/master:
status : active loaded dirty
tip commit : dc551001ec6003b217552af72bc17c9c1817b55f
old tree : 1a7f364975ea6baab1f76e76f19e5dad107a5e5a
cur tree : 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
commit clock: 8704
last pack : 0

Marks

exported to /Users/dave/src/cedet/.git/bzr/map/master-git

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END OF CRASH REPORT

[olberger]

FWIW, a Debian bug report mentinos a similar issue : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697338