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[apport] cp crashed with signal 25 in read()

Bug #103179 reported by henning on 2007-04-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #75574: cp dumps core when copying >4GB files to a VFAT filesystem. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	coreutils (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned	Ubuntu ubuntu-7.04

Bug Description

Binary package hint: coreutils

Error-message while exceeding the file-size-limit writing to a vfat-usb-drive.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 5 07:12:29 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /bin/cp
Package: coreutils 5.97-5.2ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: cp KNOPPIX_V5.1.1DVD-2007-01-04-DE/ /media/USB-DRIVE/ -r
ProcCwd: /home/henning
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
Signal: 25
SourcePackage: coreutils
StacktraceTop:
read () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? ()
?? ()
?? ()
?? ()
Uname: Linux lupsf-hn 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sat Mar 24 23:12:02 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner users video

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henning (henning-nunatakker) wrote on 2007-04-05:

Dependencies.txt Edit (190 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (826 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (692 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (982 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (472 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (499 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Micah Cowan (micahcowan) wrote on 2007-04-05:

Confirmed due to duplicate.

Signal 25 is BSD's SIGXFSZ, whose default action is to dump core (whose brilliant idea was that?). It is sent when the file size limit has been exceedd. A simple signal handler should fix this.