Re: bug report

[Jim Meyering]

David Johnson wrote:
> /media/ user
> Backtrace has 11 calls on stack:
>   11: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x29) [0xb7264b29]
>   10: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb7299cd5]
>   9: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb729ab47]
>   8: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb729bf2a]
>   7: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb72694be]
>   6: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x271) [0xb726ce11]
>   5: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb729d851]
>   4: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb729da6e]
>   3: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x79) [0xb726dc49]
>   2: /usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so(XS_c__stuff_get_disk_type+0x1e6)
> [0xb72fdb91]
>   1: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
> (Perl_pp_entersub+0x56e) [0xb76e61ee]
> A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to the web site of parted 
> http://
> www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information of what could be
> useful for bug submitting!  Please email a bug report to address@hidden
> containing at least the version (2.2) and the following message:  Assertion
> (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:659 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
> Aborted

Thanks for the report!
That looks like a real bug,
and in the most recently released version: 2.2.

Can you provide more details?
For example, if that was on your /dev/sda disk, please send the output
of this command (run it as root in a terminal):

  # parted -s /dev/sda u s p free

Also, please send the first 512 bytes from that disk.  To do that,
you would run a command like this as root (again, assuming /dev/sda):

  # dd if=/dev/sda count=1 > MBR

and then attach that file, MBR, along with the parted output
in a reply to this list.

Regards,

Jim