Gparted crashes when running fsck on fat32 partition

[Skyman]

I runned:
kdesudo "gparted /dev/sdb"

/dev/sdb is a usb memory stick with only one partition (sdb) which is formatted as fat32.
In gparted I selected the partition (which was not mounted) and select from the context menu "check" and afterwards apllied the operation.

Gparted reproducibly crashes on applying this change.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gparted 0.18.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-46.79-generic 3.13.11-ckt15
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-46-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon Mar 23 17:53:41 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-04 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: gparted
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

We will need more information to go on that "it crashed". What exactly did it say? Normally when a program crashes, you get a pop up asking if you want to submit a bug report and the appropriate logs are attached, but it seems you submitted this report by hand.

[Skyman (sskyman)]

After using "ulimit -c unlimited" it shows on the console:

Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
======================
libparted : 2.3
======================

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 7 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 6 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 26 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 25 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 29 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 28 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 32 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 31 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 35 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 34 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 38 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 37 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 41 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 40 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 491 was not found when attempting to remove it

(gpartedbin:4695): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 490 was not found when attempting to remove it
Versuch, die Sektoren 15320-15327 auÃerhalb der Partition auf de_DE.UTF-8 zu schreiben.
*** Error in `/usr/sbin/gpartedbin': malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x0000000001d85250 ***
Aborted (core dumped)

Maybe I can provide the core dump later on.
When I add a "LANG=C_ALL" in front of the "kdesudo ..." it does not crash.

[Skyman (sskyman)]

Forgot: Apport didn't start automatically so I had to report manually.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Are you able to reproduce this crash?

[Skyman (sskyman)]

@Phillip Susi: Yes, I can reproduce the crash.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Excellent, I think this is the same issue that has been seen before, and there were one or two upstream patches that may fix it. I just need to remember what they were and hopefully you can test and verify they fix it and we can get it released into 14.04.

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

@Phillip, this report sounds very similar to the following upstream report.

GParted crashes resizing fat16 file system
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735669

Mike Fleetwood posted a libparted patch to address the issue.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735669#c15

Perhaps this is the upstream patch you are referring too.

[Skyman (sskyman)]

Seems to be related or a duplicate of:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1325708
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1313600

Reproduced the problem with Kubuntu vivid daily 20150324 amd64 on Virtualbox.
Apport report and core dump from vm are attached.

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

@Skyman,

If you want to test to see if Mike's patch fixes the problem, the easiest way is to try booting from the latest GParted Live 0.22.0-1.
http://gparted.org/livecd.php

The GParted Live image contains a custom parted/libparted that includes Mike's patch.

[Skyman (sskyman)]

@Curtis: Problem does not appear with gparted-live-0.22.0-1-i586, so it seems the patch fixed the problem.
Thank you both for your help!

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Thanks Curtis, those are exactly the ones I was trying to remember. I'll try to cherry pick them to the gparted release in 14.04 and get a test build in my PPA and if Skyman can verify that using the one version breaks, and using the patched version doesn't, then I can get it SRU'ed into 14.04. Sorry if you haven't seen much activity from me lately; I've been *extremely* busy at work lately.

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

No worries Phillip. We all get busy from time to time. :-)

Steps to reproduce the crash are included in the upstream bug report. 'Still it is always good to have the original reporter confirm if the problem is resolved.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735669#c4

If it helps to get the patches accepted, these patches have already been included in some other GNU/Linux distributions, such as Fedora and Arch Linux.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Any updates on this?

[jamesbad000 (jamesbad000-1)]

got the same after trying to resize or just check a fat32
distrib: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
kernel: 3.13.0-83-generic x86_64
pkg : gparted 0.18.0-1 amd64

kdesudo gparted
...
libparted : 2.3
...
*** Error in `/usr/sbin/gpartedbin': malloc(): smallbin double linked list corrupted: 0x0000000001c952d0 ***
Aborted (core dumped)