Re: parted 1.6.11 assertion failure

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:52:48PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to
> address@hidden 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.
> 
> The background is that I really do have a partition bigger than the disk
> (previous Linux kernels disabled host protected area, newer ones don't
> so my extra 34M are gone from the end of the disk). I decided to fix the
> partitions and got this warning while starting parted (qtparted frontend
> actually). It still works, just gives the assertion failure.

Does normal parted give the same error message?

Thanks,
Andrew