Subject: Re: bug#21522: assertion metadata_length > 0 in add_logical_part_metadata failed

From: James Ring <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:06:20 -0700

Hi Paul,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Phil Susi <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On 9/20/2015 12:26 AM, James Ring wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> (please cc me on replies)
>>
>> I ran into an assertion error in parted running on my Kubuntu box:
>>
>> sjr@sjr-desktop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print
>
> Is this really the command that provoked this or was it something else?

Yeah, I just re-confirmed that this also causes the assertion failure.

>  I ask because you later show a print out of the partition table, which
> you shouldn't be able to get if the print command is what is crashing.
> Can you run sudo dd if=/dev/sdb count=1 | xxd and show the output?

sjr@sjr-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb count=1 | xxd
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 4.5406e-05 s, 11.3 MB/s
00000000: eb63 90d0 bc00 7c8e c08e d8be 007c bf00  .c....|......|..
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00000190: 6f6d 0048 6172 6420 4469 736b 0052 6561  om.Hard Disk.Rea
000001a0: 6400 2045 7272 6f72 0d0a 00bb 0100 b40e  d. Error........
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Hopefully gmail leaves the line wrapping alone in that paste...

Regards,
James