Re: BUG IN PARTED

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:02:44AM +0600, ????????? ???? wrote:
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to  
> containing the version (1.6.11) and the following message:
> Assertion (disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1037 in function 
> ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
> 
> i connected Apple iPod (mac version) to my firewire host, but Parted would 
> not 
> detect any partitions on it, and show error : "Critical error in 
> ped_disk_duplicate!".
> I think, that the source of the problem is invalid partition table on iPod.
> but i don't know ehrer and why. iPod woks fine in Mac OS X and Windows.
> hmm... it works fine in linux, but not in parted.
> i can send you some sectors from ipod using dd if=/dev/sda 
> of=/dev/file_for_you.

Perhaps bs=1k count=10 ?  (i.e. 10k)

Also, have you tried a newer version of Parted?

Thanks,
Andrew