Re: 1.6.5pre1: segmentation fault in disk_sync_part_table

[Sven Hartrumpf]

On 03 Feb 2003, Sven Hartrumpf <address@hidden> wrote: 
> On 1 Feb 2003, Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> wrote: 
>                                                                       
> (parted) p
> Disk geometry for /dev/hde: 0.000-39266.718 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031    101.975  primary   ext2        boot
> 2        101.975   2157.165  extended              
> 3       2157.166  12401.740  primary   ext2        
> 4      12401.741  39260.412  primary   ext2        
>                                                                       
> (parted) rm 2
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0806f63a in _disk_sync_part_table (disk=0x8148550) at linux.c:1705
> 1705                    errnums[i] = errno;
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0806f63a in _disk_sync_part_table (disk=0x8148550)
>     at linux.c:1705
> #1  0x0806f829 in linux_disk_commit (disk=0x8148550) at linux.c:1793
> #2  0x08055d4a in ped_disk_commit_to_os (disk=0x8148550)
>     at disk.c:334
> #3  0x08055f02 in ped_disk_commit (disk=0x8148550) at disk.c:385
> #4  0x0804b020 in do_rm (dev=0xbffff178) at parted.c:1190
> #5  0x0804848a in command_run (cmd=0x8146db8, dev=0xbffff178)
>     at command.c:129
> #6  0x0804ee56 in interactive_mode (dev=0xbffff178, 
>     cmd_list=0x8107e20) at ui.c:1093
> #7  0x0804c322 in main (argc=0, argv=0xbffff1e8) at parted.c:1639
> #8  0x080a075c in __libc_start_main (main=0x804c2a4 <main>, argc=1, 
>     ubp_av=0xbffff1e4, init=0x80480b4 <_init>, 
>     fini=0x80e9fe0 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0, stack_end=0xbffff1dc)
>     at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129
> (gdb) 

Just in case anybody else runs into this problem: the bug (which also
exists in earlier versions!, I checked 1.6.4) can be easily fixed.
So wait for a new version if you get such segmentation faults.

But parted is an extremely useful tool! Keep going ...
Sven