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  1. Bug #687594
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 687594

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Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg) wrote : Re: tar crashes with SIGSEGV when used with --listed-incremental option

The reason I was asking is that there has been a bug reported about "Segfault with --listed-incremental when archive includes root directory" in the debian bug tracker (and reported to the tar developers): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575298

However, this issue should be fixed in 1.25. There's a comment in the the mailing list discussion, though (http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-tar%3A-Segfault-with---listed-incremental-when-archive-includes-root-directory-%28fwd%29-p28597856.html):
> One followup note: With the patch applied, it still segfaulted when doing an
> incremental based on a full backup done with an older version. After doing
> fresh full backups with the patched version, things do work properly.

Could you test whether 1.25 works after a new full backup? If not, please try to provide a stack trace (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace).