Description of problem: /sbin/dump core dumps (at least when creating a level 0 dump) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.4-0.28.b45.fc24 How reproducible: happens all the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. run '/sbin/dump -0 -f /dev/null / Actual results: # /sbin/dump -0 -f /dev/null / DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Aug 16 12:21:33 2016 DUMP: Dumping /dev/mapper/fedora--server-root (/) to /dev/null DUMP: Label: none DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 8980142 blocks. DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Tue Aug 16 12:21:35 2016 DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! Segmentation fault (core dumped) Expected results: # /sbin/dump -0 -f /dev/null / DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Aug 16 12:12:15 2016 DUMP: Dumping /dev/mapper/fedora_france-root (/) to /dev/null DUMP: Label: none DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 13554879 blocks. DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Tue Aug 16 12:12:16 2016 DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 75.77% done at 34235 kB/s, finished in 0:01 DUMP: Closing /dev/null DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Tue Aug 16 12:18:53 2016 DUMP: Volume 1 14404090 blocks (14066.49MB) DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:06:37 DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 36282 kB/s DUMP: 14404090 blocks (14066.49MB) on 1 volume(s) DUMP: finished in 397 seconds, throughput 36282 kBytes/sec DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Aug 16 12:12:15 2016 DUMP: Date this dump completed: Tue Aug 16 12:18:53 2016 DUMP: Average transfer rate: 36282 kB/s DUMP: DUMP IS DONE Additional info: The expected output has been created on a second fc24 system where I manually downgraded "dump" to version 0.4-0.27.b44.fc24.
This issue has been resolved in #1365124. New version of dump (dump-0.4-0.29.b45.fc24) is now available in updates-testing repository. You can try sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update dump to get the newest version of dump. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1365124 ***