Package: dump Version: 0.4b45-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? upgrading dump from version 0.4b44-8 to 0.4b45-1 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Tried to make a backup, which failed. The investigation then showed that the new version of dump caused the failure, dump crashes with a segment violation. This was observed on amd64 and i386 architectures, as well as on a raspbian system (arm). Reverting back to the previous version of the package makes the segment violation disappear. Running 'fsck.ext4 -f -n' on the filesystem did not show any problems. * What was the outcome of this action? See below for a sample session: first running the old dump version (which works fine), then upgrading and then running dump again, with the new version (which crashes). The dump parameters are similar to how amanda calls it. root@sx:/tmp# /sbin/dump 0usf 1048576 /tmp/dump /dev/sda1 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun Jun 5 10:36:00 2016 DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda1 (/boot) to /tmp/dump DUMP: Label: none DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 34250 blocks on 0.00 tape(s). DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Sun Jun 5 10:36:01 2016 DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: Closing /tmp/dump DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Sun Jun 5 10:36:02 2016 DUMP: Volume 1 34220 blocks (33.42MB) DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:01 DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 34220 kB/s DUMP: 34220 blocks (33.42MB) on 1 volume(s) DUMP: finished in less than a second DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun Jun 5 10:36:00 2016 DUMP: Date this dump completed: Sun Jun 5 10:36:02 2016 DUMP: Average transfer rate: 34220 kB/s DUMP: DUMP IS DONE root@sx:/tmp# dpkg -i dump_0.4b45-1_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 78131 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack dump_0.4b45-1_amd64.deb ... update-alternatives: using /usr/sbin/rmt-tar to provide /usr/sbin/rmt (rmt) in auto mode Unpacking dump (0.4b45-1) over (0.4b44-8) ... Setting up dump (0.4b45-1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/sbin/rmt-dump to provide /usr/sbin/rmt (rmt) in auto mode Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... root@sx:/tmp# /sbin/dump 0usf 1048576 /tmp/dump /dev/sda1 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun Jun 5 10:37:18 2016 DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda1 (/boot) to /tmp/dump DUMP: Label: none DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 34250 blocks on 0.00 tape(s). DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Sun Jun 5 10:37:19 2016 DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! Segmentation fault DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! root@sx:/tmp# DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dump depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.43-3 ii libblkid1 2.28-5 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 ii libc6 2.22-9 ii libcomerr2 1.43-3 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 ii libselinux1 2.5-3 ii tar 1.29-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 dump recommends no packages. dump suggests no packages. -- no debconf information