Activity log for bug #687594

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2010-12-08 23:19:05 Marcin Dylewski bug added bug
2010-12-09 22:26:01 Marcel Stimberg tar (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2010-12-09 22:45:17 Marcin Dylewski attachment added output of strace -f command https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/+bug/687594/+attachment/1761447/+files/strace.out
2010-12-09 23:22:10 Marcel Stimberg bug watch added http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575298
2010-12-10 12:49:26 Marcel Stimberg bug task added tar (Debian)
2010-12-10 12:52:06 Marcel Stimberg tar (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Fix Released
2010-12-12 12:13:30 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:~marcelstimberg/ubuntu/maverick/tar/tar.fix-687594
2010-12-12 12:23:22 Marcel Stimberg description Binary package hint: tar I have a backup script which is doing incremental backups on NFS share. I am using an -g (--listed-incremental) option for that purpose. If the snapshot file does not exists (which means tar is doing full backups) everything works flawlessly. The problem occur whenever incremental backup has to be taken. Tar crashes immediately with Segmentation Fault error. I have tried to isolate NFS issues and copied the snapshot file to local storage and instructed tar to put the archive to local drive as well. The result was exactly the same. When i tried with copying just small amount of data problem did not occur. I have recently migrated from Gentoo where tar worked perfectly with this setup. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: tar 1.23-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-server 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-server x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 9 00:12:35 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: tar Binary package hint: tar I have a backup script which is doing incremental backups on NFS share. I am using an -g (--listed-incremental) option for that purpose. If the snapshot file does not exists (which means tar is doing full backups) everything works flawlessly. The problem occur whenever incremental backup has to be taken. Tar crashes immediately with Segmentation Fault error. I have tried to isolate NFS issues and copied the snapshot file to local storage and instructed tar to put the archive to local drive as well. The result was exactly the same. The problem occurs whenever the root directory "/" is included in the backup. TEST CASE: $ tar cpf /tmp/test.tar -g /tmp/snap / --exclude="*" $ tar cpf /tmp/test.tar -g /tmp/snap / --exclude="*" Segmentation fault After applying the fix in the linked branch, tar no longer segfaults. The patch is taken from this upstream commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=e21d54e8cd3d8026ad56f90cc6bde831106c2cb9 The bug is a regression introduced in Maverick. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: tar 1.23-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-server 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-server x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 9 00:12:35 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8  SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: tar == Regression details == Discovered in version: 1.23-2 Last known good version: 1.22-2ubuntu1
2010-12-12 12:23:47 Marcel Stimberg summary tar crashes with SIGSEGV when used with --listed-incremental option tar crashes with SIGSEGV when used with --listed-incremental option and including the root directory
2010-12-12 12:24:31 Marcel Stimberg tags amd64 apport-bug maverick amd64 apport-bug maverick regression-release
2010-12-12 12:25:32 Marcel Stimberg bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2010-12-13 10:04:56 Stefan Bader nominated for series Ubuntu Maverick
2011-01-09 11:15:14 Marcel Stimberg bug added subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors Team
2011-01-10 14:21:43 Bug Watch Updater tar (Debian): status Unknown Fix Released
2011-01-15 00:19:55 Martin Pitt bug task added tar (Ubuntu Maverick)
2011-01-15 13:20:09 Angel Abad bug added subscriber Angel Abad
2011-01-15 16:19:19 Marcel Stimberg description Binary package hint: tar I have a backup script which is doing incremental backups on NFS share. I am using an -g (--listed-incremental) option for that purpose. If the snapshot file does not exists (which means tar is doing full backups) everything works flawlessly. The problem occur whenever incremental backup has to be taken. Tar crashes immediately with Segmentation Fault error. I have tried to isolate NFS issues and copied the snapshot file to local storage and instructed tar to put the archive to local drive as well. The result was exactly the same. The problem occurs whenever the root directory "/" is included in the backup. TEST CASE: $ tar cpf /tmp/test.tar -g /tmp/snap / --exclude="*" $ tar cpf /tmp/test.tar -g /tmp/snap / --exclude="*" Segmentation fault After applying the fix in the linked branch, tar no longer segfaults. The patch is taken from this upstream commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=e21d54e8cd3d8026ad56f90cc6bde831106c2cb9 The bug is a regression introduced in Maverick. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: tar 1.23-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-server 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-server x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 9 00:12:35 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8  SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: tar == Regression details == Discovered in version: 1.23-2 Last known good version: 1.22-2ubuntu1 Binary package hint: tar I have a backup script which is doing incremental backups on NFS share. I am using an -g (--listed-incremental) option for that purpose. If the snapshot file does not exists (which means tar is doing full backups) everything works flawlessly. The problem occur whenever incremental backup has to be taken. Tar crashes immediately with Segmentation Fault error. I have tried to isolate NFS issues and copied the snapshot file to local storage and instructed tar to put the archive to local drive as well. The result was exactly the same. The problem occurs whenever the root directory "/" is included in the backup. TEST CASE:   $ tar cpf /tmp/test.tar -g /tmp/snap / --exclude="*"   $ tar cpf /tmp/test.tar -g /tmp/snap / --exclude="*"   Segmentation fault After applying the fix in the linked branch, tar no longer segfaults (you have to delete the files in /tmp created with the faulty version before). The patch is taken from this upstream commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=e21d54e8cd3d8026ad56f90cc6bde831106c2cb9 The bug is a regression introduced in Maverick. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: tar 1.23-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-server 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-server x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 9 00:12:35 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8  SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: tar == Regression details == Discovered in version: 1.23-2 Last known good version: 1.22-2ubuntu1
2011-01-18 00:29:27 Artur Rona removed subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors Team
2011-01-18 00:31:31 Artur Rona bug added subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors Team
2011-01-25 15:35:14 Benjamin Drung bug added subscriber Benjamin Drung
2011-01-25 21:20:54 Benjamin Drung attachment added tar_1.23-2ubuntu2.debdiff https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/+bug/687594/+attachment/1806747/+files/tar_1.23-2ubuntu2.debdiff
2011-01-25 21:21:09 Benjamin Drung removed subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors Team
2011-01-25 21:21:14 Benjamin Drung tar (Ubuntu Maverick): status New Fix Committed
2011-02-02 08:49:09 Martin Pitt bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2011-02-02 08:49:13 Martin Pitt tags amd64 apport-bug maverick regression-release amd64 apport-bug maverick regression-release verification-needed
2011-02-02 09:25:49 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/maverick-proposed/tar
2011-02-15 14:00:45 Jean-Baptiste Lallement tags amd64 apport-bug maverick regression-release verification-needed amd64 apport-bug maverick regression-release verification-done
2011-02-23 20:38:12 Launchpad Janitor tar (Ubuntu Maverick): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2011-09-19 21:41:00 Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot tags amd64 apport-bug maverick regression-release verification-done amd64 apport-bug maverick regression-release testcase verification-done