[disks-admin] dapper disks-admin crashes on rpc_pipefs

Thanks for reporting this. Can you please get a backtrace of gnome-system-tools by following the procedures described at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash? Thanks...

Vassilis Pandis wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this. Can you please get a backtrace of gnome-
> system-tools by following the procedures described at
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash? Thanks...
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
here it goes..

                                          GS

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launchpad ate the attachment..

True - AFAIK you can't use the e-mail interface to add attachments, yet.

This patch fixes it for me. It will also fix the case of a malformed "device" (which I think is when you specify something like /dev/aa0 in fstab, i.e. not without four chars after the last '/').

Sorry, not compiling.

What is g_strlen (and where is it)?

One bracket is missing, too..

                                              GS

Ooops, sorry yes. I added that g_strlen() call manually afterwards (I was pretty sure glib would have such a function for consistency :-) when I noticed that there may be a possibility of a buffer overrun (to fix the crash, only changing the position of the +4 was neccessary). I'll provide a corrected patch in a few hours.

Here's a patch that is hopefully OK. I'm not sure if I took the debian patches under consideration correctly, but to apply:

apt-get source gnome-system-tools
cd gnome-system-tools-2.14.0/
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cat ~/gst.patch | patch -p0
make

in src/disks/ resides your binary. I'm not very good at packaging so I don't know if I did create the patch correctly. At any rate the changes to the code are minor and Sebastien can easily fix it himself :-)

compiling and solving the rpc_pipefs problem.

Thank you!
                                       GS

Marking the bug Rejected, the tools has been deprecated since. We might backport the patch on dapper later though it's not likely since that issue has not been reported by a lot of people