I found bug(s) in GNU parted utility

[Hari Sekhon]

Here is the output including what I typed and the result so you can see 
for yourself:

(parted) mkpart primary ext3                                             
Start?                                                                   
Start? 1                                                                 
End?                                                                     
End? end                                                                 
(parted) p                                                               
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-17165952.000 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
(parted) h                                                               
 check MINOR                   do a simple check on the filesystem
 cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR      copy filesystem to another 
partition
 help [COMMAND]                prints general help, or help on COMMAND
 mklabel LABEL-TYPE            create a new disklabel (partition table)
 mkfs MINOR FS-TYPE            make a filesystem FS-TYPE on partititon 
MINOR
 mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END      make a partition
 mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END      make a partition with a 
filesystem
 move MINOR START END          move partition MINOR
 name MINOR NAME               name partition MINOR NAME
 print [MINOR]                 display the partition table, or a partition
 quit                          exit program
 rescue START END              rescue a lost partition near START and END
 resize MINOR START END        resize filesystem on partition MINOR
 rm MINOR                      delete partition MINOR
 select DEVICE                 choose the device to edit
 set MINOR FLAG STATE          change a flag on partition MINOR
(parted) h mkpart                                                        
 mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END      make a partition

       PART-TYPE is one of: primary, logical, extended
       FS-TYPE is one of: ext3, ext2, fat32, fat16, hfs+, hfs, jfs, 
linux-swap,
       ntfs, reiserfs, hp-ufs, sun-ufs, xfs, apfs2, apfs1, asfs, amufs5,
       amufs4, amufs3, amufs2, amufs1, amufs0, amufs, affs7, affs6, affs5,
       affs4, affs3, affs2, affs1, affs0
       START and END are in megabytes.  Negative values count from the 
end of
       the disk.
      
       mkpart makes a partition without creating a new file system on the
       partition.  FS-TYPE may be specified to set an appropriate partition
       ID.
(parted) mkpart primary ext3                                             
Start? 1                                                                 
End? 999999999999999999                                                  
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.9), and the following 
message:

Assertion (start < geom->end) at ../../parted/parted.c:258 in function
_grow_over_small_freespace() failed.
Ignore/Cancel? ignore                                                    
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.9), and the following 
message:

Assertion (under_sector != NULL) at ../../parted/parted.c:236 in function
_get_right_bound() failed.
Ignore/Cancel? ignore                                                    
Segmentation fault
address@hidden:~# parted /dev/sdb

Some background: This is a brand new server with 20x1TB disks in a Raid 
6 on a 3ware 9650 Raid controller, the OS was Knoppix 5.1 as I was 
trying to set it up.

Hope you can fix the bug.

Thanks

Hari

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Hari Sekhon