[Bug 1581314] Re: gparted crashes when copying ntfs partition

[Phil]

My apt-cache output above reports nothing useful, as I had to compile
gparted by hand to get version 0.25.  The most recent version available
via package manager is 0.19. The man page for gparted does not say any
way to get a version number, so I cannot report its version number.

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Title:
  gparted crashes when copying ntfs partition

Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  1) $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  Release:	16.04

  2) $ apt-cache policy gparted
  gparted:
    Installed: 0.25.0-1
    Candidate: 0.25.0-1
    Version table:
   *** 0.25.0-1 500
          500 http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) Copying ntfs partition from one disk to another disk should not
  crash Gparted.

  4) Running sudo gparted from terminal to capture error messages. After
  the command ntfsclone has completed but before the dialog box
  indicates success, Gparted crashes with  this error.

  (gpartedbin:21478): glibmm-ERROR **:
  unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
  what: basic_string::_M_replace_aux

  Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

  Checking after the crash, the partition seems to have been
  successfully copied, despite the crash. Does not crash when copying
  ext4.

  ...

  UPDATE:
  can confirm this also happens in Ubuntu 14.04

  1) $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  2) $ apt-cache policy gparted
  gparted:
    Installed: 0.18.0-1
    Candidate: 0.18.0-1
    Version table:
   *** 0.18.0-1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  ...

  A series messages like these also appear while gparted is running:

  (gpartedbin:4207): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 4198 was not found when
  attempting to remove it

  (gpartedbin:4207): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 4197 was not found when attempting to remove it
  ...

  And then finally after completion of ntfsclone the same error:

  (gpartedbin:4207): glibmm-ERROR **:
  unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
  what: basic_string::_M_replace_aux

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