Re: Bug in GNU Parted

[Charles Briscoe-Smith]

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 07:41:36AM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Wouter Coene wrote:
> > 
> > According to Charles Briscoe-Smith (address@hidden):
> > > Seen when I hit Ctrl-D at the (parted) prompt:
> > >
> > > You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> > > address@hidden containing the version (1.4.11), and the following message:
> > >
> > > Assertion (dev->open_count > 0) at device.c:816 in function 
> > > ped_device_close()
> > > failed.
> > > Ignore Cancel ?
> > >
> > > I'm using the Debian parted package, version 1.4.11-1
> 
> Did you type anything before?

Before I started, the 6 partitions on /dev/hdc were all FAT16, according
to fdisk.  At present, fdisk says that /dev/hdc9 is "Win95 FAT32".
I don't have a record of the session, but I think it went something
like this:

address@hidden:~# parted /dev/hdc
GNU Parted 1.4.11
[...]
Using /dev/hdc
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdc is 779/128/63.
You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry before using this program.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-3067.312 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031    507.937  primary   FAT         boot
2        507.938   3063.375  extended              
5        507.968   1015.875  logical   FAT         
6       1015.906   1523.812  logical   FAT         
7       1523.843   2031.750  logical   FAT         
8       2031.781   2539.687  logical   FAT         
9       2539.718   3063.375  logical   FAT         
(parted) check 9
(parted) resize 9 2539.718 3063.375
[At this point, parted asked me whether I'd like to convert the partition
to FAT32.  I think I said cancel the first time, then entered the resize
command again and said no, then did it again and said yes.]
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-3067.312 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031    507.937  primary   FAT         boot
2        507.938   3063.375  extended              
5        507.968   1015.875  logical   FAT         
6       1015.906   1523.812  logical   FAT         
7       1523.843   2031.750  logical   FAT         
8       2031.781   2539.687  logical   FAT         
9       2539.718   3063.375  logical   FAT         
[IIRC, this last entry said FAT32 when I ran it before.]
(parted) [Ctrl-D]

> I can't reproduce the bug here.

Neither can I now.  If I could reproduce the state of the disk beforehand,
I suppose I'd have a better chance of doing so...  I've just tried the
sequence of events I described above on partition 8 of the same disk,
but this doesn't trigger the bug.  Sorry.

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