The problem reported below was caused by the presence of a USB thumb drive on
one of the USB ports.
When I removed the thumb drive, the Parted software executed without problem.
The problem repeated when I was running updates from the repository. The USB
thumb drive was present on a USB port a
While trying to install linux software (LXDE-PCLinuxOS) on my computer, I
encountered the following that requested that I send an error report. I was
trying to install the software on a HDD that was already partitioned as an ext4
drive. The installer crashed before getting to the HDD partition
With libparted, version 2.3, I have been having a problem with
ped_disk_get_max_partition_geometry(). The function returns values that are
correct for the beginning of a partition but too small for the end. This only
seems to happen with MS-DOS disk labels. The returned value can be short by
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