Re: Bug report parted

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:

> I011-29:/ # partprobe
> 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 (1.6.25.1) and the following message:  
> Assertion
> (cyl_size <= 255 * 63) at disk_dos.c:587 in function 
> probe_partition_for_geom()
> failed.
>
> 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 (1.6.25.1) and the following message:  
> Assertion
> (cyl_size <= 255 * 63) at disk_dos.c:587 in function 
> probe_partition_for_geom()
> failed.
>
> 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 (1.6.25.1) and the following message:  
> Assertion
> (cyl_size <= 255 * 63) at disk_dos.c:587 in function 
> probe_partition_for_geom()
> failed.

Thank you for the report.
However, that is from a version of parted that is very old: 1.6.25.1.
The latest is parted-2.2.  There have been many important bug fixes.

If you can reproduce the failure with a newer version,
please let us know.