gparted crashed with SIGSEGV in memcpy() - I had just shrunk my data partition in order to make room to install Gutsy

[tdodd]

Binary package hint: gparted

I have a 120GB HDD, previously partitioned as 25GB - Vista, 80GB - Data, 10GB - XP MCE. I used Gparted in a live session to resize the Data partition to 70GB in order to make room to install Gutsy. The resize appeared to go OK (I haven't checked that my data is OK yet) but when rescanning the drives I got the @crashed@ message.

The machine is a Dell XPS M1710 notebook with 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 120GB HDD, nVidia GFX.

I did a similar thing yesterday on another machine - a Shuttle PC - but that machine had two HDDs and I was only resizing the one Vista partition on one of the drives for that install.

This might be the same as bug 127324 but as the crash description has been modified by the submitter for that bug I do not know for sure. I'm new to Ubuntu and Linux altogether.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 24 15:29:08 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gparted
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: gparted 0.3.3-2ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gparted
ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gparted
StacktraceTop:
 memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 std::string::append () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? ()
 Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback ()
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
Title: gparted crashed with SIGSEGV in memcpy()
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

[tdodd (eezytiger)]

p.s. I didn't make it clear but I had no problem with the resize on the Shuttle PC yesterday. Both installs were from the same DVD image.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
std::string::append (this=0xbfc96be4, __str=@0x833ff20) at /build/buildd/gcc-4.2-4.2.1/build/i486-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/char_traits.h:270
GParted::Win_GParted::combo_devices_changed (this=0xbfc98eec) at /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/bits/basic_string.h:758
Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback (self=0x816e820, data=0x81a6bd0) at /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/functors/slot.h:440
IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x81a7d78, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0xbfc96e5c, invocation_hint=0xbfc96d6c,