Re: [Bug Report] partprobe

[Brian C. Lane]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:57:41PM -0400, HyoGi Sim wrote:
> It printed the following message and is dead.
> 
> ===================================================
> 
> Backtrace has 13 calls on stack:
>   13: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2b) [0xb76c1733]
>   12: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x405a8) [0xb76f45a8]
>   11: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x41377) [0xb76f5377]
>   10: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x42586) [0xb76f6586]
>   9: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x11acf) [0xb76c5acf]
>   8: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x24d) [0xb76c90a1]
>   7: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x43e9b) [0xb76f7e9b]
>   6: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x44111) [0xb76f8111]
>   5: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x65) [0xb76c9d7a]
>   4: partprobe() [0x8048dcb]
>   3: partprobe(main+0x1a8) [0x80490ed]
>   2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb7570cc6]
>   1: partprobe() [0x8048bd1]
> A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to the web site of
> parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more
> information of what could be useful for bug submitting!  Please email
> a bug report to address@hidden containing at least the version
> (2.3) and the following message:  Assertion (cyl_size <= 255 * 63) at
> dos.c:649 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
> Aborted

This was fixed in parted 2.4, you can work around it by wiping your disk
and re-creating the partitions (warning: you will lose your data).

Thanks,

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