Re: bug qtparted Debian

[K.G.]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:29:09 +0200 Iván Blanco <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> When I run qtparted the console show me this message):
> A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.24) and the following
> message:Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at
> ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:1965 in function
> add_logical_part_metadata() failed.
> 
> I using GNU/Linux Debian SID with kernel version 2.6.
> If you want I send you more information about my hardware/software.

Hi, 

Thanks for your report.
If you created your partition table with (whatever)Parted, or if you were
doing some modification to it while this message occur, you should not
write to the logical partitions anymore and you should save the data they
contains mounting them read only, if there is important data on it. This
is a known bug which has a greater probability to occur in 1.6.23 and 1.6.24
than in previous versions, and is already fixed in last SVN parted version,
so it will be fixed in 1.6.25. In the mean time it is safe to create logical 
partitions, starting from an empty extended partition, using fdisk, or
even parted if you put them on cylinder boundaries...

In any case please past us the output of "/sbin/fdisk -l -u /dev/<YOUR HD>"

Cheers,
Guillaume Knispel