Installation failing

[Jim Vine]

I have run ddrescue on a failed SSD and have about 500KB of bad sectors. It looks like ddrutility is the best toolset available for finding out which files are not working. However, I am struggling to install it.

I am using Gparted live Linux, installed on a USB thumb drive, since I saw that recommended as a quick way to get a system that runs ddrescue.

This doesn't come with gcc / make etc., but I was able to install those correctly, I think.

I have been able to download the ddrutility tar.gz file, unzipped it and untarred it.

Following the installation instructions, I have cd to the resulting folder.

I have also installed sleuthkit and ntfs-3g.

Trying to sudo apt-get install gnuddrescue and sudo apt-get install gnu-fdisk returns an error (Unable to locate package). But I have ddrescue installed, and I was able to sudo apt-get install fdisk (without the "gnu-" prefix).

When I run make from the unzipped folder, I get a bunch of error messages. I am writing this from a different machine, so will try to paste them using the machine in a new message.

[Jim Vine]

user@debian:~/ddrutility-2.8$ make
gcc -Wall -W ddru_ntfscommon.c ddru_ntfsbitmap.c -o ddru_ntfsbitmap
ddru_ntfsbitmap.c: In function 'processdata':
ddru_ntfsbitmap.c:1174:46: warning: '%s' directive writing up to 254 bytes into a region of size between 221 and 240 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 1174 |        sprintf (command, "truncate -s %lld \'%s\'", (long long)ntfs_attribute.items.Attr.NonResident.n64RealSize, destination_file);
      |                                              ^~                                                                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ddru_ntfsbitmap.c:1174:8: note: 'sprintf' output between 17 and 290 bytes into a destination of size 255
 1174 |        sprintf (command, "truncate -s %lld \'%s\'", (long long)ntfs_attribute.items.Attr.NonResident.n64RealSize, destination_file);
      |        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `start_time'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x4): multiple definition of `end_time'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x4): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x8): multiple definition of `tvBegin'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x8): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x10): multiple definition of `tvEnd'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x10): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x18): multiple definition of `tvDiff'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x18): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x20): multiple definition of `ntfs_attribute'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x20): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x60): multiple definition of `p_ntfs_attribute'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x60): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x80): multiple definition of `mft_mft'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x80): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x10078): multiple definition of `p_mft_mft'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x10078): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x10080): multiple definition of `boot_sector'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x10080): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x10280): multiple definition of `p_boot_sector'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x10280): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x102a0): multiple definition of `file_attribute'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x102a0): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x104e0): multiple definition of `p_fileattribute'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x104e0): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x104e4): multiple definition of `inode_count'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x104e4): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x104e8): multiple definition of `outtype'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x104e8): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x104ec): multiple definition of `inchar'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x104ec): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x104f0): multiple definition of `inchar_start'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x104f0): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x104f4): multiple definition of `converted'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x104f4): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x104f8): multiple definition of `converted_start'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x104f8): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x104fc): multiple definition of `cd'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x104fc): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x10500): multiple definition of `no_convert'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x10500): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x10520): multiple definition of `file_name'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x10520): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x10920): multiple definition of `mft_record_size'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x10920): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEKAKki.o:(.bss+0x10924): multiple definition of `file_name_type'; /tmp/ccQkohal.o:(.bss+0x10924): first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [makefile:25: ddru_ntfsbitmap] Error 1

[Jim Vine]

Looking back through the releases, it appears that around v2.5 there was some work to refactor the code to use shared files. I was able to successfully download v2.4 and install that, which seems to be working as a workaround.

[maximus57]

I am glad you found that you could use the older version. I no longer support ddrutility, so any issues will not be fixed. But since it is open source, maybe a fix could be found by yourself or someone else. I am sure I had information on here that stated it is no longer supported, but that information seems to be gone.