Re: Assertion (ped_partition_is_active (part)) failed

[Håkon Løvdal]

Quoting Konstantin Malakhanov <address@hidden>:
> Follwoing comes from parted 1.6.12 using it with SCSI drive:
..
>
> Using /dev/sda
> (parted) print
> Error: Can't have overlapping partitions
> Error: Can't have overlapping partitions
> You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.12), and the
> following
> message:
>
> Assertion (ped_partition_is_active (part)) at disk.c:935 in function
> ped_partition_get_flag()
> failed.
> Ignore/Cancel? Terminated
>
>
> fdisk output:
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 9100 MB, 9100044288 bytes
> 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8678 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1        3338     3418096   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            3339        8678     5468160   83  Linux
>
> --
> Konstantin Malakhanov <address@hidden

I guess that this most likely will be fixed by the patch
parted-1.6.12-active.patch found in the Fedora 1.6.12-2 rpm:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/2/search/parted-1.6.12-2.src.rpm

BR Håkon Løvdal

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