Ubuntu
dosfstools package

dosfsck segfaults on my filesystem

Bug #164174 reported by Rich on 2007-11-20

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dosfstools (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: dosfstools

Running on Hardy.

My USB key recently bit the dust and generated gibberish all over the (still recognized as FAT) filesystem.

I dumped the contents of the 2GB key to my hard drive and ran dosfsck -a on it.

I received a lot of gibberish to my terminal for the trouble as it worked with unprintable characters, then a SIGSEGV.

The backtrace, having installed the -dbgsym package, is attached.

If desired, I can produce the filesystem in question.

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Rich (rincebrain) wrote on 2007-11-20:

dosfsck backtrace on SIGSEGV Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain)

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Rich (rincebrain) wrote on 2007-11-20:

Oh, right.

dosfstools
Version: 2.11-2.3

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote on 2008-11-15:

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

Changed in dosfstools:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-01-13:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.