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

[Matthias Fritzsche]

Package: parted
Version: 2.3-12
Followup-For: Bug #620273

Dear Maintainers,

I found that this bug is still is present while I tried to write
openELEC to a μSD card for my rPi. A log is attached at the end
of this mail.

If you want I can provide a dd image. But this is ~730MB when xz compressed.

After writing a new msdos partition table with fdisk the bug did
not occur anymore.

cia txt.file

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libblkid1           2.20.1-5.3
ii  libc6               2.17-0experimental0
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.74-6
ii  libparted0debian1   2.3-12
ii  libreadline6        6.2+dfsg-0.1
ii  libtinfo5           5.9-10
ii  libuuid1            2.20.1-5.3

parted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parted suggests:
pn  parted-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information

-- log of "parted /dev/sdc print"
Backtrace has 13 calls on stack:
  13: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2e) [0x7fa245d882ee]
  12: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3e02e) [0x7fa245db202e]
  11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3e43e) [0x7fa245db243e]
  10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x40c73) [0x7fa245db4c73]
  9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x163)
[0x7fa245d8e053]
  8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3f72b) [0x7fa245db372b]
  7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x407c3) [0x7fa245db47c3]
  6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x58)
[0x7fa245d8e4f8]
  5: parted() [0x4075cf]
  4: parted(non_interactive_mode+0x8a) [0x40e42a]
  3: parted(main+0x1415) [0x406c85]
  2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)
[0x7fa24557799d]
  1: parted() [0x406d49]

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 (2.3)
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 (head_size <= 63) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:662 in
function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

Aborted
-- end of log "parted /dev/sdc print"
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