abrt 1.0.9 detected a crash. architecture: i686 Attached file: backtrace cmdline: gsf-office-thumbnailer -i '/media/\x1e2/other people\'s stuff/ruta_vazdike_cv.doc' -o /tmp/.gnome_desktop_thumbnail.WZU6CV -s 128 component: libgsf crash_function: ole_dirent_new executable: /usr/bin/gsf-office-thumbnailer global_uuid: 7ac4d729597e73b7d87b48f455cf53af72a5dbce kernel: 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686 package: libgsf-gnome-1.14.15-4.fc12 rating: 4 reason: Process /usr/bin/gsf-office-thumbnailer was killed by signal 7 (SIGBUS) release: Fedora release 12 (Constantine) How to reproduce ----- 1. copy to usb stick is highly error-prone 2. Lots of faulty files 3. This crash came in the midst of an attempt to recopy a faulty file, replacing a corrupt one on the USB stick
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Do you still have the ruta_vazdike_cv.doc which made it crash ? If so can you attach it here, or send it to me privately. That would make it easy to fix.
I do still have the file, but I cannot share it, since it is the personal CV of someone who was using my computer. I was moving a lot of data, however, and I was getting very frequent write errors when copying the data to the USB stick, especially with larger audio and video files. Reformatting the USB stick as ext3 eliminated the errors, but slowed down the process to a crawl.
As you say, with all those read and write errors its likely that it was a nigh unavoidable situation with an underlying unreliable file system.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 616831 ***