Re: A bug has been detected in GNU parted.

[Buttchereit, Axel (XL)]

stephan wrote:
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.9) and the following 
> message:Assertion (old_disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:195 in 
> function ped_disk_duplicate() failed.
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.9) and the following 
> message:Assertion (disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1037 in function 
> ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.9) and the following 
> message:Assertion (disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1037 in function 
> ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
> Error: Error opening /dev/sda: No such device or address
> 
> Linux myosin 2.6.7 #1 Wed Aug 18 09:36:46 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> Thanks see you
> 
> Stephan
Trying to guess Andrew's answer... :-)

1.6.9 is a rather old version of parted. Please try again with a newer one, e. 
g. 1.6.22
If the error persists with the newer/current version, please attach (at least) 
the MBR of
your disk to the bug report by using the command

  dd if=/dev/YourHarddiskDevice of=SomeFile bs=512 count=1

(YourHarddiskDevice = hda, hdb, ... or sda, sdb, ...)

Maybe something similar should be added to the "A bug has been detected..." 
message of parted.

Apart from this: Is "/dev/sda" the device name of your harddisk?

Cheers,
Axel