Re: Bug in Parted

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:16:22AM +0200, Peter Rettig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is a problem on my computer when calling parted.
> 
> Version: 1.6.1
> When calling "parted /dev/sda print" the system crashes with a immediately
> reboot even without any errormessages.

Well, it's probably not a bug in parted, since parted doesn't
(in practice) have permission to reboot your machine.

Parted is probably tickling a bug in Linux.  You probably have to
do a binary search through the code to find out where it's crashing.

If you don't know what that means, it will probably be a steep
learning curve to be able to do that... I don't mind doing it
myself, if you can give me ssh access, or I could guide you
step-by-step on IRC...

But, could you first try a newer 2.4 kernel?

> System:       SuSE 8.0 with own kernel 2.4.17
>               1 IDE-HDD
>               2 IDE DVD-ROM, DVD+RW
>               1 IDE-HDD on Firewire with SCSI-Emulation (/dev/sda) without
>               any partition

That's a ppc machine?  (Not that it makes much difference)

Andrew