bug#21914: bugreport parted

[Emil Pedersen]

Hi!

Seems I might have stumbled upon a bug.  Apart from the information below, 
the system is running a fully updated Debian (8.2) and some disks have 
previously been used with a Solaris installation.

// Emil

--- latest output from parted before abortion ---

(parted) help mklabel
 mklabel,mktable LABEL-TYPE               create a new disklabel 
(partition table)

       LABEL-TYPE is one of: aix, amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, 
sun, loop
(parted)
(parted) mklabel ?
parted: invalid token: ?
New disk label type? msdos


You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

       http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,
please visit the GNU Parted website:

       http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (3.2)
along with the error message below, the output of

       parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and the following history of commands you entered.
Also include any additional information about your setup you
consider important.

Command History:
?
print
i
print devices
print free
print list
i
print
print ?
help
i
print   list
i
i
i
print   free
print   all
i
i
i
help
unit
help ?
help mklabel
mklabel ?
msdos

Error: SEGV_MAPERR (Address not mapped to object)
Backtrace has 11 calls on stack:
 11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(ped_assert+0x44) [0x7fd1f505f644]
 10: parted() [0x40a934]
 9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x35180) [0x7fd1f486a180]
 8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(strlen+0x2a) [0x7fd1f48b6c8a]
 7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x16ad6) [0x7fd1f5068ad6]
 6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x174ba) [0x7fd1f50694ba]
 5: parted() [0x4085e6]
 4: parted(interactive_mode+0xff) [0x40ca2f]
 3: parted(main+0x119f) [0x405f6f]
 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) 
[0x7fd1f4856b45]
 1: parted() [0x405fc7]


You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

       http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,
please visit the GNU Parted website:

       http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (3.2)
along with the error message below, the output of

       parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and the following history of commands you entered.
Also include any additional information about your setup you
consider important.

Assertion (0) at ../../parted/ui.c:356 in function sa_sigsegv_handler() 
failed.

Aborted






address@hidden:~# parted /dev/sdb unit co print unit s print
Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/sdb appears to be used, you 
can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 1
blocks) or continue with the current setting?
parted: invalid token: unit
Fix/Ignore? i
Model: ATA WDC WD10EADS-00M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
1      131kB   1000GB  1000GB  zfs          zfs
9      1000GB  1000GB  8389kB