Re: bug qtparted Debian

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:57:53PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> 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 :)

Ok, let's aim for a 1.6.25 release this WE, if leslie has no time to do it, i
will. How does this sound ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther