qtparted bugs (was Re: bug-report, console gives error messages)

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Vanni,

I suggest you change your exception handler, so it tells users to
send bug reports to you when they use qtparted.  (Do you have time
to handle them?)

Cheers,
Andrew

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:53:19AM +0200, Remco Seesink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While trying out qtparted I think I got some errors from libparted. They 
> asked me to mail them, so here we go.
> I am using debian sarge (testing). QTparted was packaged for sid, I used them 
> on testing though. libparted version is the same on
> testing and sid at this moment. I installed qtparted_0.3.1-1_i386.deb from 
> qtparted.sf.net
> 
> While running qtparted I got:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> seesink:/home/remco# qtparted
> Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that 
> another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it 
> didn't have the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may 
> cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.5) and the following 
> message:Assertion (ped_geometry_test_equal (&part->geom, &old_geom)) at 
> ../../libparted/disk.c:1681 in function ped_disk_get_max_partition_geometry() 
> failed.
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.5) and the following 
> message:Assertion (ped_geometry_test_equal (&part->geom, &old_geom)) at 
> ../../libparted/disk.c:1681 in function ped_disk_get_max_partition_geometry() 
> failed.
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.5) and the following 
> message:Assertion (ped_geometry_test_equal (&part->geom, &old_geom)) at 
> ../../libparted/disk.c:1681 in function ped_disk_get_max_partition_geometry() 
> failed.
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.5) and the following 
> message:Assertion (ped_geometry_test_equal (&part->geom, &old_geom)) at 
> ../../libparted/disk.c:1681 in function ped_disk_get_max_partition_geometry() 
> failed.
> Error: msdos disk labels do not support partition names.
> Error: msdos disk labels do not support partition names.
> Error: msdos disk labels do not support partition names.
> Error: Could not detect file system.
> Error: msdos disk labels do not support partition names.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> However, running parted did not give me any errors. I included this print for 
> the partion layout:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> seesink:/home/remco# parted 
> GNU Parted 1.6.5
> Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
> 
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 
> ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for 
> more details.
> 
> Using /dev/hda
> Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that 
> another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it
> didn't have the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may 
> cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
> Ignore/Cancel? I                                                          
> (parted) print                                                            
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031   4768.312  primary   ext3        boot
> 2       4768.312  76319.085  extended              
> 5       4768.343   9536.625  logical   ext3        
> 6       9536.656   9658.687  logical   linux-swap  
> 7       9658.718  76319.085  logical   ext3        
> (parted)    
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I did not try any operation on my harddrive.
> 
> Cheers,
> Remco.
> 
> 
> 
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