git freezes on most commands

[Avrum Feldman]

Hi,

Since somewhere last week git has started to freeze on most commands issued. 

Even just running git --version causes the program to freeze. The only way to unfreeze the windows terminal is by killing the git process. Hitting ctrl-c does nothing.

I can reproduce the issue in git bash and windows CMD.

My current git version is: 2.28.0.windows.1

My windows build is: 10.0.18363

Any pointers would be apreciated.

[Avrum Feldman]

Update: I identified the issue. It was a piece of security software on my computer that was causing it. 

Case closed.

[Olivier Cornet]

Hello,

I'm facing a similar problem.

Could you share some details about what was the exact cause and action taken to solve the problem ?

Regards,

Olivier

[Avrum Feldman]

Hi Olivier,

I had found (Using Procmon) that there was a silent employee monitoring software from Variato installed on my computer. By renaming the folder where the executables and DLLs were located I prevented the service from being able to inject the DLL into the process and the hang stopped happening instantly.

[Olivier Cornet]

Hi Avrum,

Thank you for your feedback.

In the mean time I've also fixed my problem.

It was something completely different ... I had left a USB key with a Linux distribution on it connected to my laptop.
It seems that the Linux partition not accessible by Windows are generating the problem with Git-Bash.
I've just remove the USB key and Git-Bash is back to normal operation, if I plug back the USB key, the problem reoccur.

Olivier

[Avrum Feldman]

Hmmm, that's interesting. Regardless I wasn't using git bash. But nice find.

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[Vinicius Mansur]

More than two years later, and this conversation helped me a lot.
I was having the same issue, and the reason was similar to Avrum's: "Webroot SecureAnywhere" antivirus.
Just shut it down and the issue was gone.
Thank you guys!