#46 Mcrypt sporadically fails with fatal error "Signal 11 caught."
Mcrypt sporadically fails with fatal error "Signal 11 caught. Exiting." during encryption and/or decryption, using default options.
File type, name, owner, mode, and size do not seem to matter.
Sample:
-rw-r--r-- 1 serapis users 20480 Mar 14 17:36 testfile.txt
testfile.txt: ASCII text
"
mcrypt testfile.txt
Enter the passphrase (maximum of 512 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
Enter passphrase:
Enter passphrase:
Signal 11 caught. Exiting.
"
Output file is created, but appears to be corrupted:
-rw------- 1 serapis users 15 Mar 14 17:39 testfile.txt.nc
testfile.txt.nc: data
"
mdecrypt testfile.txt.nc
mdecrypt: testfile.txt already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)?y
Enter passphrase:
File testfile.txt.nc was NOT decrypted successfully.
"
mcrypt -v
Mcrypt v.0.9.9 (x86_64-dragnux-linux-gnu)
Linked against libmcrypt v.2.5.8
Build Host: opensuse:tumbleweed:20180311
do you have enough free memory? if that is not the case probably it is something similar to https://sourceforge.net/p/mcrypt/bugs/43/
yes, I have plenty of available disk space (blocks & inodes) and ram.