Subject: bug#38620: parted: invalid pointer

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 23:55:13 -0800

I'm running Arch and get a "free(): invalid pointer":

     $ parted -v
     parted (GNU parted) 3.3
     Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
     This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
     There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

     Written by <http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob_plain;f=AUTHORS>.

I just hit "enter" when it prompts me for the end of the partition:

     $ sudo parted /dev/sdc
     GNU Parted 3.3
     Using /dev/sdc
     Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
     (parted) p
     Model: RICOH R5U880FlashMedia (scsi)
     Disk /dev/sdc: 63.9GB
     Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
     Partition Table: msdos
     Disk Flags:

     Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
      1      4194kB  273MB   268MB   primary  fat32        lba
      2      273MB   15.9GB  15.7GB  primary  ext4

     (parted) resizepart 2
     End?  [15.9GB]?
     free(): invalid pointer
     zsh: abort      sudo parted /dev/sdc

Thanks.