On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 03:58:52PM -0500, Tim Kissane wrote: > Greetings Parted devs, > > While attempting to use parted to examine a USB (/dev/sdb), I tripped a bug > message. I hope this information proves helpful. > My uneducated guess is that the function probe_filesystem_for_geom needs to > validate input. Or perhaps I need to learn the right usage. ;) > > --- > (parted) print devices > /dev/sda (480GB) > /dev/sdb (2012MB) > (parted) print sdb > Backtrace has 11 calls on stack: > 11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(ped_assert+0x44) [0x7fc9e17cf644] > 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x1f0de) [0x7fc9e17e10de] > 9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x1f1e7) [0x7fc9e17e11e7] > 8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x209b8) [0x7fc9e17e29b8] > 7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x120aa) [0x7fc9e17d40aa] > 6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(ped_disk_set_flag+0x68) > [0x7fc9e17d46c8] > 5: parted() [0x406b21] > 4: parted(interactive_mode+0xff) [0x40ca2f] > 3: parted(main+0x119f) [0x405f6f] > 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) > [0x7fc9e0fc6b45] > 1: parted() [0x405fc7] > > > You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do: > --- > Assertion (part->disk->dev->sector_size % PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT == 0) > at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:589 in function > probe_filesystem_for_geom() failed.
Well, you aren't supposed to do 'print sdb' but it also shouldn't crash. I couldn't reproduce this with parted-3.2-10.fc22.x86_64 on Fedora. Commit eef3035 might have fixed it, but I'm not sure. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
