[Parted-maintainers] Bug#463720: [bug-fdisk] Debian bug 463720 - segfault using /dev/sda [SOLUTION]

[Arthur Marsh]

Thanks, the patch worked:

ls -al `which fdisk`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84640 2008-12-29 04:08 /sbin/fdisk
victoria:/usr/src/sound# fdisk -l /dev/sda
GNU Fdisk 1.1
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.


Disk /dev/sda: 4 GB, 4334722560 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 527 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         261     2096451    6  FAT16
/dev/sda2             262         527     2128612    f  Extended LBA
/dev/sda5             262         527     2128612    b  FAT32
Warning: Partition 5 does not end on cylinder boundary.


Christian wrote, on 2008-12-29 00:47:
> 
>>    ~/# ./fdisk -l /dev/hda
>>    GNU Fdisk 1.1
>>    Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>    This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
>>    License.
>>
>>    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>>    GNU General Public License for more details.
>>
>>    Floating point exception
>>
>> I will examine it tomorrow and try to fix the bug.
>>
>> Thank's for report!!! :)
>>
>> Christian.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Stupid bug! :)
> 
> Solution is very simple: change "src/ui.c" line 720:
> 
>    fdisk_do_list_devices(&disk);
> 
> removing the `&' operator:
> 
>    fdisk_do_list_devices(disk);
> 
> After recompiling GNU fdisk we have:
> 
>    ~/# ./fdisk -l /dev/hda
>    GNU Fdisk 1.1
>    Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>    This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
>    License.
> 
>    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>    GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
> 
>    Disk /dev/hda: 30 GB, 30014046720 bytes
>    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
>    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>    /dev/hda1   *           1        1825    14659281    c  Linux
>    /dev/hda2            1826        2434     4883760   83  Linux
>    /dev/hda3            2435        2497      498015   82  Linux swap
>    /dev/hda4            2498        3649     9245407   83  Linux
>    ~/#
> 
> Happy partition lists! ;)
> 
> Christian.
> 
> 
> 
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