Public bug reported:
I mis-read my partition info and tried to mount what was a swap partition.
This generated a segmentation fault. No matter what, this should not happen,
even though I was not quite correct.
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user: fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdj: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38166 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdj1 1 37916 38825968 83 Linux
/dev/sdj3 38042 38166 128000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdk: 2059 MB, 2059403264 bytes
38 heads, 37 sectors/track, 2860 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1406 * 512 = 719872 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdk1 1 2861 2011014+ 6 FAT16
user: mkdir /media/external
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/external': Permission denied
user: sudo !!
sudo mkdir /media/external
user: sudo mkdir /media/usbflash
sudo mount /dev/sdj3 /media/external
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
user:
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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segmentation fault trying to mount a swap (accidentally)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121677
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