Re: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument and parted: double free or corruption (out)

[Jim Meyering]

Rudy Gevaert wrote:
...
> If I then quiet parted I get
> *** glibc detected *** parted: double free or corruption (out):
> 0x00007efff7afcab0 ***
>
> That is then only with parted 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1.
>
>
> So to conclude:
> 1) In my case, doing things with -s enabled doesn't work (either versions)
> 2) I get ' double free or corruption ' in the Debian Stable version.
>
> All help would be appreciated as this is blocking the installation of
> virtual machines.

Thanks for the report.

Would you please try the latest from git or from the snapshot?
Or even the beta:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.0.tar.gz   (2.7MB)
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.0.tar.xz   (1.3MB)

I should release parted-2.1 today.