bug#44443: I apparently found a bug?

[Brian C. Lane]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 09:17:46AM -0600, TrotFox Greyfoot wrote:
> Ver 3.2 reported a bug and told me to mail you:
> 
> After entering 'print' on an external USB HDD that is giving some odd
> errors, parted returned:
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> *Assertion (dev != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:185 in function
> ped_disk_new()failed.Aborted*

I'd need more of the backtrace and maybe a copy of the MBR to figure out
more. But coupled with 'giving some odd errors' I'd guess you have a
hardware problem. Check your system's logs for i/o errors related to the
device. If that's the case there's nothing parted can do about it.

> See also:
> 
> 
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> *pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo parted sdb unit co print unit s printError: Could
> not stat device sdb - No such file or directory.Retry/Cancel? c*

You told it to use sdb, not /dev/sdb in that case :)

Brian

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