[Parted-maintainers] Bug#739317: parted: running on apple formated cdimage file fails assert

[Ben Hildred]

Package: parted
Version: 2.3-12
Severity: normal

I have  a cd image of a mac ppc install disk that I was wanting to inspect
before burning to disk. I was suspecting that there would be one or more hfs
partitions in a apple partition map. file game no useful information and gdisk
identified the partition type but could not read it. So I was happy to find
that parted should work. Alas . . .

ben at crystal:~/mp4$ /sbin/parted MacOS904Z.iso
WARNING: You are not superuser.  Watch out for permissions.
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /home/ben/mp4/MacOS904Z.iso
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) help
  align-check TYPE N                        check partition N for TYPE(min|opt)
alignment
  check NUMBER                             do a simple check on the file system
  cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-NUMBER TO-NUMBER   copy file system to another
partition
  help [COMMAND]                           print general help, or help on
COMMAND
  mklabel,mktable LABEL-TYPE               create a new disklabel (partition
table)
  mkfs NUMBER FS-TYPE                      make a FS-TYPE file system on
partition NUMBER
  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END     make a partition
  mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END     make a partition with a file system
  move NUMBER START END                    move partition NUMBER
  name NUMBER NAME                         name partition NUMBER as NAME
  print [devices|free|list,all|NUMBER]     display the partition table,
available devices, free space, all found partitions, or a particular partition
  quit                                     exit program
  rescue START END                         rescue a lost partition near START
and END
  resize NUMBER START END                  resize partition NUMBER and its file
system
  rm NUMBER                                delete partition NUMBER
  select DEVICE                            choose the device to edit
  set NUMBER FLAG STATE                    change the FLAG on partition NUMBER
  toggle [NUMBER [FLAG]]                   toggle the state of FLAG on
partition NUMBER
  unit UNIT                                set the default unit to UNIT
  version                                  display the version number and
copyright information of GNU Parted
(parted) print
Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but
Linux says it is 512 bytes.
Ignore/Cancel? i


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Segmentation fault
ben at crystal:~/mp4$ /sbin/parted MacOS904Z.iso unit co print unit s print
WARNING: You are not superuser.  Watch out for permissions.
Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but
Linux says it is 512 bytes.
/sbin/parted: invalid token: unit
Ignore/Cancel? i
parted: malloc.c:4660: _int_malloc: Assertion `(unsigned long)(size) >=
(unsigned long)(nb)' failed.
Aborted
ben at crystal:~/mp4$ reportbug parted



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (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               2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.74-8
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:
ii  parted-doc  2.3-12

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