gnome-disks truncates a huge image when restoring to a drive from xz-compressed image file
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug affects Lubuntu Xenial i386 but not amd64.
gnome-disks works when restoring from a 300 MB image compressed with xz. But it fails when trying to 'restore' from a 12 GB image compressed with xz. This extraction works with mkusb, which uses xzcat and dd under the hood. The process is described at
https:/
and the file to 'restore' is
gnome-disks 'thinks' that the file size is 3.5 GB, so it truncates it, and the result is a corrupted system on the target drive. See the attached screenshot.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.18.3.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.372
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sat Apr 16 21:26:16 2016
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta i386 (20160415)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here: iso.qa. ubuntu. com/qatracker/ reports/ bugs/1571255
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