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bug#29937: You found a bug in GNU Parted! Don't panic!
From: |
Brian C. Lane |
Subject: |
bug#29937: You found a bug in GNU Parted! Don't panic! |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 09:27:39 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) |
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 04:50:25PM -0500, Vincent Tompkins wrote:
> ~]$ sudo parted -l
> Backtrace has 14 calls on stack:
> 14: /lib64/libparted.so.2(ped_assert+0x45) [0x7fee1c3ae995]
> 13: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x241db) [0x7fee1c3c51db]
> 12: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1245a) [0x7fee1c3b345a]
> 11: /lib64/libparted.so.2(ped_disk_add_partition+0x2d3) [0x7fee1c3b3dc3]
> 10: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x23a58) [0x7fee1c3c4a58]
> 9: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x23bc0) [0x7fee1c3c4bc0]
> 8: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x23c59) [0x7fee1c3c4c59]
> 7: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x24935) [0x7fee1c3c5935]
> 6: /lib64/libparted.so.2(ped_disk_new+0x47) [0x7fee1c3b3967]
> 5: parted(+0x7784) [0x55ca2ba76784]
> 4: parted(+0x6efb) [0x55ca2ba75efb]
> 3: parted(main+0x132b) [0x55ca2ba753bb]
> 2: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xea) [0x7fee1bb6600a]
> 1: parted(_start+0x2a) [0x55ca2ba7547a]
>
>
> You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:
>
> Don't panic!
> Your report should contain the version of this release (3.2)
>
> and the following history of commands you entered.
> Also include any additional information about your setup you
> consider important.
>
> Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at dos.c:2305 in function
> add_logical_part_metadata() failed.
>
> Aborted
> I tried running GParted when libparted reported an error.
> Then I went to parted to see what errors it may report.
>
> ~]$ sudo lsblk
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
> ├─sda1 8:1 0 60G 0 part /C:
> ├─sda2 8:2 0 60G 0 part
> ├─sda3 8:3 0 1G 0 part /boot
> ├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part
> ├─sda5 8:5 0 70G 0 part
> │ └─fedora-root 253:0 0 70G 0 lvm /
> └─sda6 8:6 0 1.6T 0 part /D:
> sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
>
> ~]# sudo fdisk /dev/sda -l
> Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0xdb7d6b3c
>
> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1 * 2048 125831167 125829120 60G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda2 125831168 251660287 125829120 60G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda3 251660288 253757439 2097152 1G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda4 253757440 3907028991 3653271552 1.7T 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 253761536 400570367 146808832 70G 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda6 400570368 3907028991 3506458624 1.6T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
This indicates that whatever created your partition layout didn't leave
enough metadata space for the extended partition. There is nothing we
can do for this.
--
Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)