Re: Bug Report

[Jim Meyering]

Richard Gradle wrote:

> While trying to install linux software (LXDE-PCLinuxOS) on my computer, I
> encountered the following that requested that I send an error report.  I was
> trying to install the software on a HDD that was already partitioned as an 
> ext4
> drive.  The installer crashed before getting to the HDD partitioning portion 
> of
> the installation procedure.
>
> The output from the terminal session is provided below:
>
> address@hidden guest]# /usr/sbin/draklive-install
> /media/ user
> Backtrace has 11 calls on stack:
>   11: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x29) [0xb77278b9]
>   10: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb775d435]
>   9: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb775e2b7]
>   8: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb775f6aa]
>   7: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb772c28e]
>   6: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x271) [0xb772fbf1]
>   5: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb77610e3]
>   4: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0 [0xb776130e]
>   3: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x79) [0xb7730a29]
>   2: /usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so(XS_c__stuff_get_disk_type+0x1e6)
> [0xb77b6b91]
>   1: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
> (Perl_pp_entersub+0x56e) [0x489181ee]
> 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 information of what could be
> useful for bug submitting!  Please email a bug report to address@hidden
> containing at least the version (2.3) and the following message:  Assertion
> (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:661 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
> Aborted
> address@hidden guest]#

Thanks for reporting that.
That happens because your disk has invalid CHS numbers.
However CHS numbers are not really relevant these days,
and in the latest versions of parted (2.4 and 3.0) that
assertion has been converted to a mere warning.

So one solution is to make your tool (draklive?)
use a newer version of Parted.

An alternative might be to remove your partition table
and add a new one with parted.