Ubuntu
uswsusp package

swap-offset open(): Value too large for defined data type

Bug #309621 reported by Lean Fuglsang
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Bug Description

Running these three commands, results in an error.

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/.hibernate.img bs=1024000 count=3000
3000+0 records in
3000+0 records out
3072000000 bytes (3,1 GB) copied, 111,554 s, 27,5 MB/s

sudo mkswap /.hibernate.img
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2999996 KiB
intet mærke, UUID=5c48a655-3f86-461d-81d9-cd3e794a7ac3

sudo swap-offset /.hibernate.img
open(): Value too large for defined data type

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z3non (tom-uttenthaler) wrote :

I can confirm this for version 0.6~cvs20070618-1ubuntu2 of uswsusp in intrepid:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=2097152
2097152+0 Datensätze ein
2097152+0 Datensätze aus
2147483648 Bytes (2,1 GB) kopiert, 87,8132 s, 24,5 MB/s

$ swap-offset /swapfile
open(): Value too large for defined data type

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z3non (tom-uttenthaler) wrote :

it works up to bs=1024 count=2097151, which is 2^31 - 1024, so it very much looks like a overrun of a signed 32bit integer ...

$ uname -a
Linux silver 2.6.28-4-generic #5-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 26 22:48:51 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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seb (sebastien-ponce-ubuntu) wrote :

I had the same problem and found this that worked for me :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=915250

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