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Re: bug qtparted Debian


From: K.G.
Subject: Re: bug qtparted Debian
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:57:53 +0200

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:10:06 +0200 Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:21:51AM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:29:09 +0200 Iván Blanco <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > When I run qtparted the console show me this message):
> > > A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to
> > > address@hidden containing the version (1.6.24) and the following
> > > message:Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at
> > > ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:1965 in function
> > > add_logical_part_metadata() failed.
> > > 
> > > I using GNU/Linux Debian SID with kernel version 2.6.
> > > If you want I send you more information about my hardware/software.
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Thanks for your report.
> > If you created your partition table with (whatever)Parted, or if you were
> > doing some modification to it while this message occur, you should not
> > write to the logical partitions anymore and you should save the data they
> > contains mounting them read only, if there is important data on it. This
> > is a known bug which has a greater probability to occur in 1.6.23 and 1.6.24
> > than in previous versions, and is already fixed in last SVN parted version,
> > so it will be fixed in 1.6.25. In the mean time it is safe to create 
> > logical 
> > partitions, starting from an empty extended partition, using fdisk, or
> > even parted if you put them on cylinder boundaries...
> 
> Euh, does this mean we need to do a 1.6.25 upload pretty soon ? 

Considering you end up with Assertion (metadata_length > 0) whenever
you create logical partitions on msdos labels which are not aligned on
cylinder boundaries with probably most libparted versions, and considering
this happens most of the time when you use MB units with Parted 1.6.24
(and maybe 1.6.23 I don't remember), and then considering this means the
EBR of the logical partition will be on its first sector instead of
before it, i guess we need a 1.6.25 release soon, for the sake of our
users :)

Cheers,
Knispel Guillaume




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