Re: A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.

[Jim Meyering]

Anton Karpov wrote:
> Linux Debian Lenny 5.01
> Kernel: Linux manager 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 01:08:11 UTC 2009
> i686 GNU/Linux
> parted 1.8.8
...
> manager:~# partprobe -s
> /dev/sda: msdos partitions 1 2 <5 6>
> /dev/sdb: msdos partitions 1 2 <5 6>
> Backtrace has 7 calls on stack:
>   7: /lib/libparted-1.8.so.10(ped_assert+0x3b) [0xb7f167fb]
>   6: /lib/libparted-1.8.so.10 [0xb7f57747]
>   5: /lib/libparted-1.8.so.10(ped_disk_new+0xa4) [0xb7f1f6f4]
>   4: partprobe [0x8049550]
>   3: partprobe(main+0x19f) [0x804996f]
>   2: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7dc7455]
>   1: partprobe [0x8049461]
...
> PED_LE64_TO_CPU (gpt->AlternateLBA) <= disk->dev->length - 1) at
> ../../../libparted/labels/gpt.c:828 in function gpt_read() failed.

Thanks for the report.
That looks like a problem that was fixed a few months ago:

  http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commitdiff;h=554087b39ee0f8cd67

Can you build from a git clone and verify that partprobe
no longer fails for you?