Package: tar Version: 1.25-2 Severity: important
Hi, when trying to create an incremental archive, tar segfaults: [r...@awak:~]$ gdb --args /home/xav/tar/tar-1.25/debian/tar/bin/tar --listed-incremental /mnt/backup/awak.incremental.bin --one-file-system -p -c -z -f /mnt/backup/awak.20101123.tar.gz / GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /home/xav/tar/tar-1.25/debian/tar/bin/tar...done. (gdb) r Starting program: /home/xav/tar/tar-1.25/debian/tar/bin/tar --listed-incremental /mnt/backup/awak.incremental.bin --one-file-system -p -c -z -f /mnt/backup/awak.20101123.tar.gz / [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] /home/xav/tar/tar-1.25/debian/tar/bin/tar: Suppression de « // » au début des noms des membres Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. append_incremental_renames (dir=0x808cec8) at incremen.c:897 897 dumpdir_free (dir->dump); (gdb) bt #0 append_incremental_renames (dir=0x808cec8) at incremen.c:897 #1 0x08062825 in collect_and_sort_names () at names.c:1065 #2 0x08053b63 in create_archive () at create.c:1321 #3 0x080680dd in main (argc=10, argv=0xffffda94) at tar.c:2646 (gdb) p *dir $1 = {next = 0x0, mtime = {tv_sec = 1290519333, tv_nsec = 240726285}, device_number = 2305, inode_number = 2, dump = 0x0, idump = 0x0, children = NO_CHILDREN, flags = 5, orig = 0x808cf18, tagfile = 0x0, caname = 0x808cf08 "/", name = 0x808ceb8 "//"} (gdb) Apparently it tries to free a NULL pointer. HTH, Xav -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co pn ncompress <none> (no description available) ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100810-1 XZ-format compression utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org