Panic error after installing in MacOS

[wlodzimierz-dzis]

[glvr182]

main.go Line 66 - 68 state :

66 : app, err := app.NewApp(appConfig)
67 : app.Log.Info(err)
68 : app.GitCommand.SetupGit()

So my guess would be that when app.log tried to log err, err was nil.
What is strange is when I try to reproduce this error I can't seem to get it.

@Vinill Can you apply this patch and tell us if the error goes away?

diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index c7fec1a..6f9f3fb 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ func main() {
                Debug:     *debuggingFlag,
        }
        app, err := app.NewApp(appConfig)
-       app.Log.Info(err)
+       if err != nil {
+               app.Log.Info(err)
+       }
        app.GitCommand.SetupGit()
        app.Gui.RunWithSubprocesses()
 }

Copy/paste it into a file named patch and run git apply patch; go build; ./lazygit

[jesseduffield]

@remyabel ah I think I see what's happening here. An error has occured when making the app, but that error occurred before the logger was added to the app struct, meaning that we're getting a nil pointer dereference

[jesseduffield]

actually turns out the logger probably is there, but when there's an error, we're not returning the app.
Gonna fix this in #180 (though there'll probably be more troubleshooting here to determine why the the call to NewApp() is failing in the first place)

[gomjellie]

I have same issue on OS X Elcapitan

it seem that versions after 1.6.1 has that issue

this is the way i downgraded to 1.6.1 version

wget "https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/download/v0.1.61/lazygit_0.1.61_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz"
tar -xvzf ./lazygit_0.1.61_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
cp ./lazygit /usr/local/bin/lazygit

[jesseduffield]

@gomjellie do you still get the error from the latest version?

[gomjellie]

i just reinstalled current version via brew ('brew reinstall lazygit')

brew info lazygit
jesseduffield/lazygit/lazygit: stable 0.1.66
A simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/
/usr/local/Cellar/lazygit/0.1.66 (5 files, 12.0MB) *
  Built from source on 2018-08-19 at 18:00:40
From: https://github.com/jesseduffield/homebrew-lazygit/blob/master/lazygit.rb

0.1.66 version still not working on mine

[gomjellie]

this is the error log

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x28 pc=0x1573f4b]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
	/Users/jesseduffieldduffield/go/src/github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/main.go:55 +0x14b

[jesseduffield]

@gomjellie In version 0.1.72 https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest we no longer panic there, although it's likely that some other bug is going on. Could you grab that version and see what happens at startup?

[gomjellie]

version 1.7.72 make panic on mine

panic: Could not detect Language

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
	/Users/jesseduffieldduffield/go/src/github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/main.go:60 +0x305

Looks like that error originates from here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-attic/jibber_jabber Please open an issue there.

Meanwhile, what's the output when you run the locale command?

[gomjellie]

LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

ah... empty LANG, LC_ALL makes problems?

Either set LC_ALL to C or your default locale and the crashing should go away.

[gomjellie]

@remyabel thanks! changing LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 works!

[glvr182]

@gomjellie So I understand everything goes solid now?