Package: gnu-fdisk Version: 1.2.3-2 Severity: normal
When trying to identify the filesystem type on a USB mass storage device I ran: # gdb --args fdisk -l /dev/sr0 GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /sbin/fdisk...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) run Starting program: /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sr0 Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only. Warning: Device /dev/sr0 has a logical sector size of 2048. Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only. GNU Fdisk 1.2.3 Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 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. Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Disk /dev/sr0: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 2048 = 32901120 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception. 0x08058f15 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x08058f15 in ?? () #1 0x0804cc2e in ?? () #2 0x08050544 in ?? () #3 0x08058c43 in ?? () #4 0x08050635 in ?? () #5 0x0804b102 in ?? () #6 0x41f7eb55 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #7 0x0804b041 in ?? () (gdb) quit There appears to be no gnu-fdisk-dbg package in debian, and even after installing libc6-dbg and libparted1.8-dbg, the backtrace is still only showing: (gdb) bt #0 0x08058f15 in ?? () #1 0x0804cc2e in ?? () #2 0x08050544 in ?? () #3 0x08058c43 in ?? () #4 0x08050635 in ?? () #5 0x0804b102 in ?? () #6 0x41f7eb55 in __libc_start_main (main=Could not find the frame base for "__libc_start_main". ) at libc-start.c:222 #7 0x0804b041 in ?? () -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnu-fdisk depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.5.5 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.10.2-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libparted1.8-12 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libreadline5 5.2-7 GNU readline and history libraries ii libuuid1 2.16.2-0 Universally Unique ID library gnu-fdisk recommends no packages. gnu-fdisk suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

