Re: Bug in GNU Parted?

[Jim Meyering]

Robert Stagner wrote:
> While using GNU parted version 2.3, I encountered the following message
>
> (parted) print
> Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdb1
> Retry/Ignore/Cancel? R
> Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdb1
> 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: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x29) [0x4a4b99]
>   7: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x48898) [0x4e3898]
>   6: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x61) [0x4acab1]
>   5: parted() [0x804ddfe]
>   4: parted(interactive_mode+0x116) [0x8055796]
>   3: parted(main+0x18f4) [0x804d484]
>   2: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0x52e113]
>   1: parted() [0x804d521]
>
> How do I report this?

Thanks for the report.
Sending it here was perfect.

I'm pretty sure that bug is fixed in the latest: parted-3.1.
Can you test parted-3.1 to confirm that?

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.1.tar.xz