Activity log for bug #1394871

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2014-11-21 05:50:11 Removed by request bug added bug
2014-11-21 05:54:45 Removed by request description I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 dev with secure-delete 3.1-6ubuntu1 and on wiping the empty space of an USB flash drive with FAT32 as filesystem I'm always getting this error after several hours: root@ubuntu:~# sfill -fllv /media/sdf1 Wipe mode is insecure (one pass [random]) Wiping now ... Creating /media/sdf1/oooooooo.ooo ... * Wiping inodes ...sfill: malloc.c:2372: sysmalloc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 *(sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 *(sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long) old_end & pagemask) == 0)' failed. Aborted I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 dev with secure-delete 3.1-6ubuntu1 and on wiping the empty space of an USB flash drive with FAT32 as filesystem I'm always getting this error after several hours: root@ubuntu:~# sfill -fllv /media/sdf1 Wipe mode is insecure (one pass [random]) Wiping now ... Creating /media/sdf1/oooooooo.ooo ... * Wiping inodes ...sfill: malloc.c:2372: sysmalloc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 *(sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 *(sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long) old_end & pagemask) == 0)' failed. Aborted Also the filesystem does then contain several empty files with random filenames.
2016-01-15 13:22:14 Launchpad Janitor secure-delete (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed