[Parted-maintainers] Bug#620273: libparted0debian1: Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c in probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

[Michał Rawlik]

Package: libparted0debian1
Version: 2.3-5
Severity: normal

Gparted is crashing when trying to read 4 GB TDK pendrive partitions. Pendrive
is newly bought, pre-formatted in msdos. Debian mounts, reads and writes to it
without any problem.

When first launched gparted claimed that there was no partition table on the
drive. Nothing was done with pendrive during that session. Since then gparted
is crashing whenever trying to read drive's partitions making it impossible to
launch when pendrive is plugged.

Backtrace has 15 calls on stack:
  15: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7fae6bb82351]
  14: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3d2c6) [0x7fae6bbac2c6]
  13: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3da43) [0x7fae6bbaca43]
  12: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3e6fd) [0x7fae6bbad6fd]
  11: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x1cb) [0x7fae6bb88a3b]
  10: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x40165) [0x7fae6bbaf165]
  9: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x40355) [0x7fae6bbaf355]
  8: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x7fae6bb89505]
  7: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x46df54]
  6: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x477b44]
  5: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x4a5157]
  4: /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1(+0x38632) [0x7fae6a5ef632]
  3: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x6cea4) [0x7fae69a36ea4]
  2: /lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x68ba) [0x7fae690128ba]
  1: /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x7fae68d7a02d]
Assertion (head_size <= 63) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:662 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libparted0debian1 depends on:
ii  libblkid1                    2.17.2-9.1  block device id library
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-11   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1           2:1.02.63-2 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libuuid1                     2.17.2-9.1  Universally Unique ID library

libparted0debian1 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libparted0debian1 suggests:
pn  libparted0-dev                <none>     (no description available)
pn  libparted0-i18n               <none>     (no description available)
pn  parted | nparted              <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information