partimage crashed with SIGSEGV

[ingo]

Binary package hint: partimage

I just tried to save the first primary partitition /dev/sda1 which is formatted ntfs and 8GB in size.
Immediately after going through all the options/settings and pressing 'ok' to start the backup, partimage crashed wit 'core dumped'

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 20 16:45:01 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/partimage
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: partimage 0.6.4-17
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: partimage
ProcCwd: /home/ingo/data/temp
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: 11
SourcePackage: partimage
StacktraceTop:
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Title: partimage crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev root scanner tape

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Additional information:

1. I did not select 'check partitition prior to backup'

2. Hardy brings version 0.6.4 which crashes, Lenny contains v0.6.7 which works fine.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

tried with installing the Debian-Lenny 'partimage_0.6.7-1_amd64.deb' in Hardy:
all works smoothly.

As it is essentially only one file, the binary /usr/sbin/partimage and all dependencies are fulfilled, I consider this a good fix.

Just put said Debian version to updates solves all.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

It is essentially just 1 file, the binary /usr/sbin/partimage

[Buz Cory (buzco)]

I confirm that http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19817268/partimage_0.6.7-1_amd64.deb appears to do what it should on my AMD Turion x2 running Intrepid-64 bit.

It splits NTFS partitions into the size files I specify (4+GB to fit on a DVD). The GUI burner SW seems to choke on the resulting images, but the command-line dvdrecord seems to work on them.

I have not yet confirmed that I can restore from these.

== Buz :)

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

I cannot judge on Intrepid, but since Hardy 8.04.2 Ubuntu has silently upgraded to partimage 0.6.7-1 and all is ok now.
I also can confirm restore of a NTFS partition went smoothly.

Ingo

[Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)]

Marking as "Fix released".