Disk Utility Crashes on Benchmark
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Built 4 identical machines, all work well. When running benchmarks using disk-utility on all four, one machine of the four fails with a segfault:
palimpsest[1796]: segfault at 7fffc8278ff8 ip 00007f33d60dc084 sp 00007fffc8279000 error 6 in libgobject-
The machines are:
120 GB SSD with Ubuntu partition and swap
1 TB storage drive
16 GB memory
I am running:
Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit
gnome-disk-utility:
Installed: 3.0.2-1ubuntu2
Candidate: 3.0.2-1ubuntu2
expected:
proper benchmark (all four other machines performed essentially identically)
actually happened:
program disappeared, checked dmesg and found segfault
I have checked that all four machines are hooked up similarly (same SATA controllers, etc.), and again, only one of the machines fails. And it fails consistently (same dmesg response).
Thanks!
Let me slightly correct myself. I went one last time and checked how each drive was hooked in. On this motherboard, there are 8 SATA ports, 4 are 3G and 4 are 6G. While both of my drives were hooked to the 6G side (with 6G cables), they weren't in the -same two- that the other machines were hooked into. For kicks, I moved these drives to the exact same two ports as the other machines, and lo-and-behold, the benchmark completed successfully, with results matching the other 3 machines.
So I guess the problem statement is why the specific port matters.
Thanks!