Re: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument and parted: double free or corruption (out)

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:51:42AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> ...
> > If I then quiet parted I get
> > *** glibc detected *** parted: double free or corruption (out):
> > 0x00007efff7afcab0 ***
> >
> > That is then only with parted 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1.
> >
> >
> > So to conclude:
> > 1) In my case, doing things with -s enabled doesn't work (either versions)
> > 2) I get ' double free or corruption ' in the Debian Stable version.
> >
> > All help would be appreciated as this is blocking the installation of
> > virtual machines.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> Would you please try the latest from git or from the snapshot?
> Or even the beta:
> 
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.0.tar.gz   (2.7MB)
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.0.tar.xz   (1.3MB)
> 
> I should release parted-2.1 today.

Sorry for the delay, but I got my probem fixed. by exporting the
volume as an xvd device instead of sd.

Xen changed this some time ago.  

Rudy
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