parted crash accessing GPT table

[Daniel Fandrich]

parted 3.0 crashes for me when accessing the attached EFI partition table
with the following crash log. This was compiled on an ubuntu 11.04 x86_64
Linux system.

$ /var/tmp/parted-3.0/parted/parted ptable  unit co print unit s print
WARNING: You are not superuser.  Watch out for permissions.
Error: Can't have the end before the start! (start sector=34 length=-33)  
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.                                 
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.                                 
Error: end of file while reading No such file or directory                
parted: invalid token: unit
Retry/Ignore/Cancel? i                                                    
Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will
be used.
OK/Cancel? ok                                                             
Backtrace has 8 calls on stack:
  8: /var/tmp/parted-3.0/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.1(ped_assert+0x31) 
[0x7f3394dd34c1]
  7: /var/tmp/parted-3.0/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.1(+0x246ae) 
[0x7f3394deb6ae]
  6: /var/tmp/parted-3.0/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.1(ped_disk_new+0x75) 
[0x7f3394dd99e5]
  5: /var/tmp/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted() [0x405e59]
  4: /var/tmp/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted(non_interactive_mode+0x8c) 
[0x40a7bc]
  3: /var/tmp/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted(main+0xd6e) [0x40800e]
  2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xff) [0x7f33945cbeff]
  1: /var/tmp/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted() [0x404bf9]
                                                                          

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Assertion (last_usable <= disk->dev->length) at gpt.c:727 in function
_parse_header() failed.

Aborted


>>> Dan
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Daniel Fandrich
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