Hi, I went back and recreated everything from scratch following some documentation to make sure I was doing things "correctly". Here is another output of the kpartx -a dumping.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# sfdisk /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1 Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... BLKRRPART: Invalid argument OK Disk /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1: 17718 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p1 0+ 17717 17718- 142319803+ 83 Linux /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty Input in the following format; absent fields get a default value. <start> <size> <type [E,S,L,X,hex]> <bootable [-,*]> <c,h,s> <c,h,s> Usually you only need to specify <start> and <size> (and perhaps <type>). /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p1 : /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p1 0+ 17717 17718- 142319834+ 83 Linux /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p2 : /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p3 : /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p4 : /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty New situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p1 0+ 17717 17718- 142319834+ 83 Linux /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty Warning: no primary partition is marked bootable (active) This does not matter for LILO, but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk. Do you want to write this to disk? [ynq] y Successfully wrote the new partition table Re-reading the partition table ... BLKRRPART: Invalid argument If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1) to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1 (See fdisk(8).) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get update; apt-get upgrade [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# kpartx -a /dev/mapper/eux0000411-eul0001138-R10-1 *** glibc detected *** kpartx: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00002b33649349e0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0x2b336464fb0a] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0x2b33646536fc] /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02.1(dm_task_destroy+0x45)[0x2b33643d44c5] kpartx[0x405c7a] kpartx[0x402dd1] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x2b33645fbb44] kpartx[0x4018e9] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00408000 r-xp 00000000 08:61 4310003 /sbin/kpartx 00608000-00609000 rw-p 00008000 08:61 4310003 /sbin/kpartx 00609000-0062b000 rw-p 00609000 00:00 0 [heap] 2b33641a9000-2b33641c6000 r-xp 00000000 08:61 4293845 /lib/ld-2.6.1.so 2b33641c6000-2b33641c9000 rw-p 2b33641c6000 00:00 0 2b33643c5000-2b33643c7000 rw-p 0001c000 08:61 4293845 /lib/ld-2.6.1.so 2b33643c7000-2b33643dc000 r-xp 00000000 08:61 4292668 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02.1 2b33643dc000-2b33645dc000 ---p 00015000 08:61 4292668 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02.1 2b33645dc000-2b33645de000 rw-p 00015000 08:61 4292668 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02.1 2b33645de000-2b3364730000 r-xp 00000000 08:61 4293860 /lib/libc-2.6.1.so 2b3364730000-2b336492f000 ---p 00152000 08:61 4293860 /lib/libc-2.6.1.so 2b336492f000-2b3364932000 r--p 00151000 08:61 4293860 /lib/libc-2.6.1.so 2b3364932000-2b3364934000 rw-p 00154000 08:61 4293860 /lib/libc-2.6.1.so 2b3364934000-2b3364939000 rw-p 2b3364934000 00:00 0 2b3364939000-2b3364950000 r-xp 00000000 08:61 4292680 /lib/libselinux.so.1 2b3364950000-2b3364b4f000 ---p 00017000 08:61 4292680 /lib/libselinux.so.1 2b3364b4f000-2b3364b51000 rw-p 00016000 08:61 4292680 /lib/libselinux.so.1 2b3364b51000-2b3364b52000 rw-p 2b3364b51000 00:00 0 2b3364b52000-2b3364b8e000 r-xp 00000000 08:61 4292682 /lib/libsepol.so.1 2b3364b8e000-2b3364d8e000 ---p 0003c000 08:61 4292682 /lib/libsepol.so.1 2b3364d8e000-2b3364d8f000 rw-p 0003c000 08:61 4292682 /lib/libsepol.so.1 2b3364d8f000-2b3364d9a000 rw-p 2b3364d8f000 00:00 0 2b3364d9a000-2b3364d9c000 r-xp 00000000 08:61 4293863 /lib/libdl-2.6.1.so 2b3364d9c000-2b3364f9c000 ---p 00002000 08:61 4293863 /lib/libdl-2.6.1.so 2b3364f9c000-2b3364f9e000 rw-p 00002000 08:61 4293863 /lib/libdl-2.6.1.so 2b3364f9e000-2b3364f9f000 rw-p 2b3364f9e000 00:00 0 2b3364f9f000-2b3364fac000 r-xp 00000000 08:61 4292669 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 2b3364fac000-2b33651ac000 ---p 0000d000 08:61 4292669 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 2b33651ac000-2b33651ad000 rw-p 0000d000 08:61 4292669 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 2b3368000000-2b3368021000 rw-p 2b3368000000 00:00 0 2b3368021000-2b336c000000 ---p 2b3368021000 00:00 0 7fff468eb000-7fff46901000 rw-p 7fff468eb000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Aborted -- kpartx crash when executed on AMD64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179267 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs