idevicebackup crashed with SIGSEGV in fwrite()

[Luke Faraone]

In this case, "foo" was a file, not a directory.

Crashed on start:

$ idevicebackup backup foo
Backup directory is "foo"
Started "com.apple.mobilebackup" service on port 53802.
Starting backup...
Creating Info.plist for new backup.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libimobiledevice-utils 1.1.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 25 23:10:36 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/idevicebackup
ProcCmdline: idevicebackup backup foo
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe16781a654 <fwrite+52>: mov (%rcx),%eax
 PC (0x7fe16781a654) ok
 source "(%rcx)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: libimobiledevice
StacktraceTop:
 fwrite () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: idevicebackup crashed with SIGSEGV in fwrite()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-20 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 _IO_fwrite (buf=0x1125a00, size=1, count=969, fp=0x0) at iofwrite.c:43
 buffer_write_to_filename (filename=<value optimized out>, buffer=0x1125a00 "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC \"-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN\" \"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd\">\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>\n\t<key>Build Version<"..., length=969) at idevicebackup.c:258
 plist_write_to_filename (plist=<value optimized out>, filename=0x10f4d70 "foo/Info.plist", format=<value optimized out>) at idevicebackup.c:302
 main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>) at idevicebackup.c:936

[dino99 (9d9)]

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