When importing a repository, if you have no phabricator.base-uri configured, then the repository remains on "Importing" status and seems quite happy (although seemingly making no progress), despite the log showing that the daemon is repeatedly crashing and restarting.
I think it's valid, but if it's not because I didn't bother to set up my local test instance properly then I wouldn't be too surprised. This crashing stopped (and my import completion percent started to rise above 0.00%) as soon as I ran the suggested command to fix phabricator.base-uri. From bin/phd log:
```Daemon 4 WAIT [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:56 +0000] Waiting to restart process.
Daemon 3 INIT [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:56 +0000] Starting process.
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] [2014-12-30 05:49:57] EXCEPTION: (PhutilProxyException) Error while executing task ID 741 from queue. {>} (Exception) Define 'phabricator.base-uri' in your configuration to continue. at [<phabricator>/src/infrastructure/env/PhabricatorEnv.php:386]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #0 PhabricatorEnv::getAnyBaseURI() called at [<phabricator>/src/infrastructure/env/PhabricatorEnv.php:317]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #1 PhabricatorEnv::getProductionURI(string) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/differential/conduit/DifferentialParseCommitMessageConduitAPIMethod.php:89]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #2 DifferentialParseCommitMessageConduitAPIMethod::execute(ConduitAPIRequest) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/conduit/method/ConduitAPIMethod.php:65]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #3 ConduitAPIMethod::executeMethod(ConduitAPIRequest) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/conduit/call/ConduitCall.php:130]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #4 ConduitCall::executeMethod() called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/conduit/call/ConduitCall.php:80]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #5 ConduitCall::execute() called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/diffusion/query/lowlevel/DiffusionLowLevelCommitFieldsQuery.php:41]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #6 DiffusionLowLevelCommitFieldsQuery::executeQuery() called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/diffusion/query/lowlevel/DiffusionLowLevelQuery.php:23]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #7 DiffusionLowLevelQuery::execute() called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker.php:63]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #8 PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker::updateCommitData(DiffusionCommitRef) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositoryGitCommitMessageParserWorker.php:15]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #9 PhabricatorRepositoryGitCommitMessageParserWorker::parseCommit(PhabricatorRepository, PhabricatorRepositoryCommit) called at [<phabricator>/src/applications/repository/worker/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitParserWorker.php:44]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #10 PhabricatorRepositoryCommitParserWorker::doWork() called at [<phabricator>/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/PhabricatorWorker.php:91]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #11 PhabricatorWorker::executeTask() called at [<phabricator>/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/storage/PhabricatorWorkerActiveTask.php:156]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #12 PhabricatorWorkerActiveTask::executeTask() called at [<phabricator>/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/PhabricatorTaskmasterDaemon.php:19]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #13 PhabricatorTaskmasterDaemon::run() called at [<phutil>/src/daemon/PhutilDaemon.php:91]
Daemon 3 STDE [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] #14 PhutilDaemon::execute() called at [<phutil>/scripts/daemon/exec/exec_daemon.php:111]
Daemon 3 FAIL [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] (255) Process exited with error 255.
Daemon 3 WAIT [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:49:57 +0000] Waiting to restart process.```
I think this is a valid issue, but if it's not because I didn't bother to set up my local test instance properly then I wouldn't be too surprised.