[Parted-maintainers] Bug#620107: parted: Assertion (last_usable <= disk->dev->length) failed

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Package: parted
Version: 2.3-5
Severity: normal


root at zac:~# cat /proc/partitions 
major minor  #blocks  name

   8        0 1953514584 sda
   8        1        977 sda1
   8        2   19531250 sda2
   8        3    7137588 sda3
   8        4 1926843392 sda4
   8       16 1953514584 sdb
   8       32  293057352 sdc
   8       48  293057352 sdd
   9      127  586112000 md127

I compied (with dd) the first 22 GB of /dev/sda to /dev/sdc .  Plan was then to remove the new /dev/sdc4 (which is too large & outside the disk) and create a new one that fits.  However, parted dies on trying 'print', with the error:

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root at zac:~# parted /dev/sdc
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sdc
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print                                                            
Error: Ogiltigt argument during seek for read on /dev/sdc                 
Retry/Ignore/Cancel? i                                                    
Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will
be used.
OK/Cancel?                                                                
OK/Cancel? ok                                                             
Backtrace has 8 calls on stack:
  8: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7fe296570351]
  7: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x444c1) [0x7fe2965a14c1]
  6: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x7fe296577505]
  5: parted() [0x4070de]
  4: parted(interactive_mode+0xf3) [0x40e183]
  3: parted(main+0x8f) [0x40b1df]
  2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fe295d90c4d]
  1: parted() [0x405709]
                                                                          

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

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Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
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        parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and the following history of commands you entered.
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Assertion (last_usable <= disk->dev->length) at
.../../../libparted/labels/gpt.c:718 in function _parse_header() failed.

Avbruten (SIGABRT)

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Also parted 'rm 4' is unable to complete.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers squeeze-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libblkid1                 2.17.2-9       block device id library
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-10      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.48-5    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted0debian1         2.3-5          The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline6              6.1-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libuuid1                  2.17.2-9       Universally Unique ID library

parted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parted suggests:
pn  parted-doc                    <none>     (no description available)

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