Package: libparted0debian1
Version: 2.3-12
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Note that this bug may affect the wheezy installer;
see Bug#705790: Installation hangs starting up the partitioner.
I do not know the two are related, but I'd guess they are.
* What led up to the situation? ran gparted from a Debian Live started by
USB stick on a system with no internal drives but one external one connected
by USB 2.0. When it launched it scanned partitions and currently says
"Searching /dev/sda partitons." An error popup said
"Libparted Bug Found! (as superuser)" with the text
Assertion (head_size <= 63) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:662
in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
1. Tried fdisk, with expected results:
root@tempserver:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 3926 MB, 3926949888 bytes
16 heads, 16 sectors/track, 29960 cylinders, total 7669824 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 8064 7669823 3830880 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
root@tempserver:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204883968 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525164 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
sdb is the real drive connected by USB; it has never been formatted.
2. Ran gparted /dev/sdb from command line. This launched and did not experience
an error. I was able to create a partition table and a partition. That
was my original goal.
gparted /dev/sda reproduces the error.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The workaround appears to have succeeded.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Worked the first time. No error for /dev/sda.
Additional info: the USB stick is mounted on a USB 3.0 port; when I attempted
to use them for a keyboard in a slightly different environment (netbooting)
it did not work. I gather there are known bugs in USB 3.0 handling in linux.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libparted0debian1 depends on:
ii libblkid1 2.20.1-5.3
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.74-7
ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.3
ii multiarch-support 2.13-38
libparted0debian1 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libparted0debian1 suggests:
pn libparted0-dev <none>
pn libparted0-i18n <none>
pn parted | nparted <none>
-- no debconf information
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