[CentOS] Parted Bug? in C 5.9

Andrew Reis andy at dbmsinc.com
Fri May 10 03:53:18 UTC 2013


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Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 3:33 PM
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Subject: [CentOS] Parted Bug? in C 5.9

I'm receiving the following error when trying to repartition and reformat a
USB flash drive via parted using a simple script. The bug follows:

 

/sbin/parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary fat32

Backtrace has 14 calls on stack:

  14: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_assert+0x3b) [0x10af3b]

  13: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x146194]

  12: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x146f4d]

  11: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x1483c7]

  10: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x1103e7]

  9: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x295) [0x112e65]

  8: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x14a2c3]

  7: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x14a505]

  6: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_disk_new+0xa3) [0x113c23]

  5: /sbin/parted [0x804e2ef]

  4: /sbin/parted(non_interactive_mode+0x7c) [0x8052c9c]

  3: /sbin/parted(main+0x58) [0x8050f58]

  2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x94cebc]

  1: /sbin/parted [0x804b521]

You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.

Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking

the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,

please visit the GNU Parted website:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (1.8.1)

along with the error message below, the output of

parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and additional information about your setup you consider important.

Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:623 in function
probe_partition_for_geom()

failed.

Backtrace has 15 calls on stack:

  15: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_assert+0x3b) [0x10af3b]

  14: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x146194]

  13: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x146f4d]

  12: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x1483c7]

  11: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x1103e7]

  10: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x295) [0x112e65]

  9: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x14a2c3]

  8: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x14a505]

  7: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x14a7a5]

  6: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_disk_new+0xa3) [0x113c23]

  5: /sbin/parted [0x804e2ef]

  4: /sbin/parted(non_interactive_mode+0x7c) [0x8052c9c]

  3: /sbin/parted(main+0x58) [0x8050f58]

  2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x94cebc]

  1: /sbin/parted [0x804b521]

You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.

Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking

the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,

please visit the GNU Parted website:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (1.8.1)

along with the error message below, the output of

parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and additional information about your setup you consider important.

Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:623 in function
probe_partition_for_geom()

failed.

 

Output of parted /dev/sdb unit co print unit s print:

 

parted /dev/sdb unit co print unit s print

Backtrace has 14 calls on stack:

  14: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_assert+0x3b) [0x10af3b]

  13: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x146194]

  12: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x146f4d]

  11: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x1483c7]

  10: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x1103e7]

  9: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x295) [0x112e65]

  8: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x14a2c3]

  7: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x14a505]

  6: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_disk_new+0xa3) [0x113c23]

  5: parted [0x804d21b]

  4: parted(non_interactive_mode+0x7c) [0x8052c9c]

  3: parted(main+0x58) [0x8050f58]

  2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x94cebc]

  1: parted [0x804b521]

You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.

Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking

the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,

please visit the GNU Parted website:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (1.8.1)

along with the error message below, the output of

parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and additional information about your setup you consider important.

Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:623 in function
probe_partition_for_geom()

failed.

parted: invalid token: unit

Ignore/Cancel?

 

Model: Kingston DT 100 G2 (scsi)

Disk /dev/sdb: 3927MB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags

1      4129kB  3927MB  3923MB  primary  fat32        boot, lba

 

 

 

Anyone have any ideas?

 

 

_________________________________________________________________

Does anyone have any suggestions about this?

Andrew Reis
Networking/Windows Support
DBMS Inc.
     




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