Re: [BUG] I broke a disk using parted, so now parted crashes when using the disk

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Maloney wrote:
...
> peter:/mnt # parted /dev/sdb unit s print
> Backtrace has 13 calls on stack:
>   13: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2e) [0x7fb751212a6e]
>   12: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_geometry_read+0x80) [0x7fb75121a1e0]
>   11: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_geometry_read_alloc+0x54)
> [0x7fb75121a274]
>   10: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(nilfs2_probe+0x6a) [0x7fb75123a5fa]
>   9: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_file_system_probe_specific+0x53)
> [0x7fb751213f33]

Thanks for the report.
However, you didn't say which version of parted you're using.
That's an important detail, since a nilfs probe bug was fixed in parted-3.1:

    * Noteworthy changes in release 3.1 (2012-03-02) [stable]
      ...
      libparted: no longer aborts (failed assertion) due to a nilfs2_probe bug
      [bug introduced in parted-2.4 with the addition of nilfs2 support]

If you can reproduce the bug with parted-3.1, we'll be very interested.