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partimage package

partimage won't run on amd64

Bug #19124 reported by Rick Beldin
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partimage (Debian)
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Bug Description

partimage isn't listed in the package list above

Installed partimage 0.6.4-10 on 5.04 running on a AMD64 using Synaptic manager.
  No errors during installation.

When you run it:

 partimage
Error: sizeof(DWORD) != 4 (8)
This version has been compiled with an uncompatible version of gcc.

So...
 file /usr/sbin/partimage
/usr/sbin/partimage: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

apt-cache show partimage
Package: partimage
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 660
Maintainer: Sergio Rua <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.6.4-10
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3),
libnewt0.51, libpam0g (>= 0.76), libssl0.9.7, libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1),
slang1a-utf8 (>> 1.4.9dbs-4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Conflicts: partimage-server (<< 0.6.0), partimage-doc (<= 20020126-6)
Filename: pool/universe/p/partimage/partimage_0.6.4-10_amd64.deb
Size: 196290
MD5sum: 97e3865a28042b625913cb449b18c185

gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-linux/3.3.5/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm
--enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc --disable-multilib x86_64-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)

readelf shows:

ELF Header:
  Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class: ELF64
  Data: 2's complement, little endian
  Version: 1 (current)
  OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
  ABI Version: 0
  Type: EXEC (Executable file)
  Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64
  Version: 0x1
  Entry point address: 0x4043c0
  Start of program headers: 64 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers: 293208 (bytes into file)
  Flags: 0x0
  Size of this header: 64 (bytes)
  Size of program headers: 56 (bytes)
  Number of program headers: 8
  Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)
  Number of section headers: 26
  Section header string table index: 25

Tags: amd64
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Todd Deshane (deshantm) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug.

I was able to reproduce this problem on my
breezy AMD64 box as well.
It is version 0.6.4-10

When running partimage I get the error:
Error: sizeof(DWORD) != 4 (8)
This version has been compiled with an uncompatible
version of gcc

Changing status to New/Confirmed

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Lakin Wecker (lakin) wrote :

I just verified that this is still a problem in Dapper with the latest updates. Assigning to the right package, and confirming.

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote :

Still a problem in edgy as well.

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote :

This seems deliberately built into partimage. src/client/main.cpp says:

   if (sizeof(unsigned long int) != 4)
   {
      fprintf (stderr, "Error: sizeof(DWORD) != 4 (%d)\n", sizeof(unsigned long int));
      goto errcheck;
   }

After poking around on google and partimage.org, it seems partimage is not 64bit clean. It won't compile with -m32 (at least not on my box), and debian apparently doesn't package it for amd64 because of this. Maybe we shouldn't either.

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote :

Alternatively, if we could just package a 32bit binary for amd64, that's rumored to work.

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote :

I can confirm that 32bit partimage binary works, as long as I have a 32bit libnewt and libslang available. It may also be possible to build the package with -m32 on amd64, if we had libnewt and libslang in lib32.

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xtsbdu3reyrbrmroezob (xtsbdu3reyrbrmroezob) wrote :

Will 32-bit fix for 64-bit be available in Edgy or not? Or do we have to wait for Edgy+1? Why is partimage not 64-bit clean? Is this is small or large task to fix in the sources...hrmmm
--
Kristian Hermansen

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Alfonso Rodriguez (euoar) wrote :

I hope this can be of help to somebody. I had the same problem in my ubuntu edgy beta amd64. What I have done is to get the static i386 binary tarball from www.partimage.org, remove the old "partimage" binary from /usr/sbin and then put the i386 binary there. Until now it works pefectly.

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Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen) wrote :

Fixed in Feisty:

partimage (0.6.4-17) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update maintainer email address to <email address hidden>.
  * Switch debian/partimaged-passwd to /bin/bash, it uses bash only
    features, like read -s.
  * debian/patches/disable_header_check.diff
    - Added. Disable header check for amd64. Closes: #391046
      This patch is a workaround. A proper fix is expected in the next
      upstream release.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in partimage:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in partimage:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Mathijs Vogelzang (mathijs) wrote :

I have all repositories enabled (including updates, pre-release, etc.) but my version of partimage is still stuck at 0.6.4-15ubuntu1, and therefore I still have the sizeof(DWORD) != 4 problem.
Also, I saw on the debian bug tracker that this bug is supposed to be fixed starting from version 0.6.4-8? (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=259523)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I can confirm this still being an issue with the latest version of partimage, 0.6.4-15ubuntu1, on amd64.
"Error: sizeof(DWORD) != 4 (8)
This version has been compiled with an uncompatible version of gcc."

Changed in partimage:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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jmrasor (jmrasor) wrote :

Same here.

System is amd64 dual-core (Brisbane 4400).
OS is Feisty Desktop CD, with all updates installed.

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Necreia (necreia) wrote :

I confirm the error.

Core 2 Duo AMD64, fully updated.

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Konstantin Solomatov (konstantin-solomatov) wrote :

I also experience this problem in Feisty.

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deadwill (deadwill-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

0.6.4-17 merge is now on Feisty and Gutsy.

Changed in partimage:
assignee: nobody → xxxxx1
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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