Failed assert (USB drive)

[Anders Sundman]

Hi!

sdb is a 4GB USB drive (DataTravler 100 G2 - Kingston). It brand new.

I'm running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and it's fairly well updated.

Running the "parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print" cmd triggers
the crash again.

Regards
// Anders

Here is a brief report:

$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print
Backtrace has 14 calls on stack:
  14: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2a) [0x4fef0a]
  13: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x42507) [0x536507]
  12: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x43317) [0x537317]
  11: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x4460c) [0x53860c]
  10: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0xf7b1) [0x5037b1]
  9: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x262) [0x507032]
  8: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x45fa3) [0x539fa3]
  7: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x4619f) [0x53a19f]
  6: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x507e15]
  5: parted() [0x804e389]
  4: parted(non_interactive_mode+0x85) [0x8054b95]
  3: parted(main+0x6d) [0x8052f9d]
  2: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x15abd6]
  1: parted() [0x804c3f1]


You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

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        parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

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Försäkran (head_size <= 63) på ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:659 i funktionen
probe_partition_for_geom() misslyckades.

Avbruten (SIGABRT)