Bug

[Carl Doersch]

qtparted popped up an error while I was running it.  The following message 
printed on the command line:

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A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to the web site of parted 
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more informations of what 
could be useful for bug submitting!  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing at least the version (1.7.1) and the following 
message:  Assertion (disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1319 in function 
ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to the web site of parted 
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more informations of what 
could be useful for bug submitting!  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing at least the version (1.7.1) and the following 
message:  Assertion (!disk->update_mode) at ../../libparted/disk.c:400 in 
function ped_disk_destroy() failed.
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The failure happened right after I started qtparted (sudo qtparted), when I 
clicked on the device /dev/sda (that's the only disk listed).  The error seems 
to happen every time I use qtparted.  However, before I installed Solaris on my 
system, qtparted was working fine.  My syslog has some info about my disk 
(printed at boot time):

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May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000] SCSI device sda: 
231496650 512-byte hdwr sectors (118526 MB)
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000] sda: Write Protect is off
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 
00 00
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000] SCSI device sda: write 
cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000] SCSI device sda: 
231496650 512-byte hdwr sectors (118526 MB)
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000] sda: Write Protect is off
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 
00 00
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000] SCSI device sda: write 
cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.000000]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 
sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.068000]  sda3: <solaris: [s0] 
sda7 [s1] sda8 [s2] sda9 [s7] sda10 >
May 17 19:16:27 cdoersch-laptop kernel: [    5.068000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached 
scsi disk sda
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and fdisk says:

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address@hidden:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 118.5 GB, 118526284800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14410 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        3922    31503433+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            3923        6794    23069340   83  Linux
/dev/sda3   *        6795        9666    23069340   bf  Solaris
/dev/sda4            9667       14409    38098147+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           14345       14409      522112+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            9667       14344    37575972   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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Nothing is written to my syslog when the qtparted error happens.

Happy debugging...let me know if you need any more info.