gpartedbin crashed with SIGABRT in ped_assert()

[chris_debian]

This happened when starting gParted as root, and when I attempt to look at a USB stick mounted as /dev/sdb.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gparted 0.17.0-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 23 10:31:56 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-18 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140218)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gparted
StacktraceTop:
 ped_assert () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0
 ped_disk_new () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: gpartedbin crashed with SIGABRT in ped_assert()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ped_assert (cond_text=cond_text@entry=0xb76dc364 "last_usable <= disk->dev->length", file=file@entry=0xb76dbfa0 "../../../libparted/labels/gpt.c", line=line@entry=994, function=function@entry=0xb76dc6f9 <__PRETTY_FUNCTION__.6421> "_parse_header") at ../../libparted/debug.c:112
 _parse_header (disk=0xb2600c78, disk=0xb2600c78, update_needed=<synthetic pointer>, gpt=0xb2603788) at ../../../libparted/labels/gpt.c:994
 gpt_read (disk=0xb2600c78) at ../../../libparted/labels/gpt.c:1286
 ped_disk_new (dev=0xb2600b60) at ../../libparted/disk.c:200
 GParted::GParted_Core::get_device_and_disk (this=0xbf96b758, device_path=..., lp_device=@0xb2f65fc8: 0xb2600b60, lp_disk=@0xb2f65fcc: 0x0, strict=false) at GParted_Core.cc:3390

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Your partition table is corrupt and claims that the disk is longer than it actually is. I suggest you back up your data, format the drive, repartition it ( you may need to use gdisk for this ), and restore.