[Parted-maintainers] Bug#516514: gnu-fdisk: fdisk segfaults when switching from expert mode to normal mode

[Amit Uttamchandani]

Package: gnu-fdisk
Version: 1.2-1
Severity: normal


GNU fdisk segfaults when switching from expert mode to normal mode.

Here is the sequence of commands:

amitu at debian:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdc
GNU Fdisk 1.2.1
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.

Using /dev/sdc
Command (m for help): p                                                   

Disk /dev/sdc: 1 GB, 1011709440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 123 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
/dev/sdc1   *           1          51           0    c  FAT32 LBA
/dev/sdc2              52         123           0   83  Linux
Command (m for help): x                                                   
Expert command (m for help): r                                            
Segmentation fault
amitu at debian:~$ 



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnu-fdisk depends on:
ii  libc6          2.7-18                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5    5.7+20081213-1            shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.8-1 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5   5.2-3.1                   GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libuuid1       1.41.3-1                  universally unique id library

gnu-fdisk recommends no packages.

gnu-fdisk suggests no packages.

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