Subject: Re: bug#17153: Bug report
From: Phillip Susi <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:58:34 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

parted 2.3 is very old and no longer supported here.  You should
report this to your distribution instead.  This particular bug was
fixed long ago in parted, and the fix backported to debian based distros.

On 03/31/2014 06:05 PM, lev abalkin wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> After creating a rather small partition on a pendrive (1000KB) I
> used partprobe and got the following:
> 
> 
> Backtrace has 12 calls on stack: 12:
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2e)
> [0x7fc80e84e2ee] 11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3e04d)
> [0x7fc80e87804d] 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3e43e)
> [0x7fc80e87843e] 9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x40c73)
> [0x7fc80e87ac73] 8:
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x163) 
> [0x7fc80e854053] 7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3f72b)
> [0x7fc80e87972b] 6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x407c3)
> [0x7fc80e87a7c3] 5:
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x58) 
> [0x7fc80e8544f8] 4: partprobe() [0x4013a0] 3: partprobe(main+0x20e)
> [0x4011fe] 2:
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) 
> [0x7fc80d7f4ead] 1: partprobe() [0x401249] A bug has been detected
> in GNU Parted.  Refer to the web site of parted 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information
> of what could be useful for bug submitting!  Please email a bug
> report to [email-masked] containing at least the version (2.3)
> and the following message:  Assertion (head_size > 0) at 
> ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:661 in function 
> probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Abgebrochen
> 
> I hope this is helpful in some way. Do you need any more
> information?
> 
> Thanks for all your awsome work so far and all the best for the
> future! A loyal fan and user of GNU software
> 
> 
>