I ran into this when umounting a cryptsetup encrypted usb disk mounted on /media/disk using "umount /media/disk". Here's the trace: ~$ umount /media/disk *** buffer overflow detected ***: /sbin/umount.hal terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7fe264fbb1a7] /lib/libc.so.6(+0xfe060)[0x7fe264fba060] /lib/libc.so.6(+0xfe6bb)[0x7fe264fba6bb] /sbin/umount.hal[0x400daf] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7fe264edac4d] /sbin/umount.hal[0x400c19] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00402000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 799903 /usr/sbin/umount.hal 00601000-00602000 r--p 00001000 fc:02 799903 /usr/sbin/umount.hal 00602000-00603000 rw-p 00002000 fc:02 799903 /usr/sbin/umount.hal 01f62000-01f83000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7fe264880000-7fe264896000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 131154 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7fe264896000-7fe264a95000 ---p 00016000 fc:02 131154 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7fe264a95000-7fe264a96000 r--p 00015000 fc:02 131154 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7fe264a96000-7fe264a97000 rw-p 00016000 fc:02 131154 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7fe264a97000-7fe264a9e000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 131555 /lib/librt-2.11.1.so 7fe264a9e000-7fe264c9d000 ---p 00007000 fc:02 131555 /lib/librt-2.11.1.so 7fe264c9d000-7fe264c9e000 r--p 00006000 fc:02 131555 /lib/librt-2.11.1.so 7fe264c9e000-7fe264c9f000 rw-p 00007000 fc:02 131555 /lib/librt-2.11.1.so 7fe264c9f000-7fe264cb7000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 131553 /lib/libpthread-2.11.1.so 7fe264cb7000-7fe264eb6000 ---p 00018000 fc:02 131553 /lib/libpthread-2.11.1.so 7fe264eb6000-7fe264eb7000 r--p 00017000 fc:02 131553 /lib/libpthread-2.11.1.so 7fe264eb7000-7fe264eb8000 rw-p 00018000 fc:02 131553 /lib/libpthread-2.11.1.so 7fe264eb8000-7fe264ebc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fe264ebc000-7fe265034000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 131539 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so 7fe265034000-7fe265234000 ---p 00178000 fc:02 131539 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so 7fe265234000-7fe265238000 r--p 00178000 fc:02 131539 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so 7fe265238000-7fe265239000 rw-p 0017c000 fc:02 131539 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so 7fe265239000-7fe26523e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fe26523e000-7fe265248000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 788784 /usr/lib/libhal-storage.so.1.0.0 7fe265248000-7fe265447000 ---p 0000a000 fc:02 788784 /usr/lib/libhal-storage.so.1.0.0 7fe265447000-7fe265448000 r--p 00009000 fc:02 788784 /usr/lib/libhal-storage.so.1.0.0 7fe265448000-7fe265449000 rw-p 0000a000 fc:02 788784 /usr/lib/libhal-storage.so.1.0.0 7fe265449000-7fe265459000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 788786 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0 7fe265459000-7fe265658000 ---p 00010000 fc:02 788786 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0 7fe265658000-7fe265659000 r--p 0000f000 fc:02 788786 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0 7fe265659000-7fe26565a000 rw-p 00010000 fc:02 788786 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0 7fe26565a000-7fe265697000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 131132 /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 7fe265697000-7fe265897000 ---p 0003d000 fc:02 131132 /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 7fe265897000-7fe265898000 r--p 0003d000 fc:02 131132 /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 7fe265898000-7fe265899000 rw-p 0003e000 fc:02 131132 /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 7fe265899000-7fe2658b9000 r-xp 00000000 fc:02 131534 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so 7fe265a94000-7fe265a99000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fe265ab6000-7fe265ab8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fe265ab8000-7fe265ab9000 r--p 0001f000 fc:02 131534 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so 7fe265ab9000-7fe265aba000 rw-p 00020000 fc:02 131534 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so 7fe265aba000-7fe265abb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff45dde000-7fff45df3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff45dff000-7fff45e00000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]