Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 841421
mtpfs segfaults when writing to a mounted mtpfs filesystem
Last modified: 2013-02-13 16:38:40 EST
Description of problem: Attempts to write into any mtpfs filesystem causes mtpfs to segfault, leaving the mount point broken/mangled with null permissions, ownership, size & datestamp. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mtpfs-1.1-0.2.svn20120510.fc16.i686 libmtp-1.1.3-2.fc16.i686 How reproducible: 100% of the time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. plug in MTP device (in my case, a Google Nexus 7 table in MTP mode) 2. create local mountpoint: mkdir /tmp/mtpfs 3. mount it: mtpfs /tmp/mtpfs 4. attempt to copy any file into it, and it either acts as if the copy is successful, or fails. In either case, its never truly successful, and the mount point is corrupted/dropped and mtpfs has segfaulted Actual results: mtpfs mountpoint is no longer mounted, mtpfs has segfaulted, file is never successfully written Expected results: no segfaults, file is successfully written
Also, once this fails, the mountpoint looks like this in 'ls -l' output: ??????????? ? ? ? ? ? mtpfs
You need to file these bugs upstream (https://code.google.com/p/mtpfs/issues/list) because I'm only dealing with packaging mtpfs in Fedora. And best of luck because unfortunately upstream are not responsive.
Sadly, there's been a bug opened for this upstream since 2008. I don't understand how anyone is able to use mtpfs.
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