gpartedbin crashed with SIGABRT in ped_assert()

[Bruno Medeiros]

I got it when I tried to apply another operation while there is already an operation running. I was moving a partition and realized that gparted was allowing me to do another operation, so I tried, just to test. And I got this after press apply and try to cancel the second one.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gparted 0.11.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 14 02:06:13 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gparted
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ped_assert () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0
 ped_device_write () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0
 ?? ()
Title: gpartedbin crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ped_assert () from /tmp/tmpVcGWq2/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0
 ped_device_write () from /tmp/tmpVcGWq2/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0
 GParted::GParted_Core::copy_block (this=0x7fff87aba020, lp_device_src=<optimized out>, lp_device_dst=0x7f3cc0012d90, offset_src=427387340, offset_dst=593195008, block_length=<optimized out>, error_message=..., readonly=false) at GParted_Core.cc:2800
 GParted::GParted_Core::copy_blocks (this=0x7fff87aba020, src_device=..., dst_device=..., src_start=545104331, dst_start=710911999, length=193188593664, blocksize=-8388608, operationdetail=..., readonly=false, total_done=@0x7f3cc98e7518) at GParted_Core.cc:2708
 GParted::GParted_Core::copy_filesystem (this=0x7fff87aba020, src_device=..., dst_device=..., src_start=167782860, dst_start=333590528, src_sector_size=512, dst_sector_size=512, src_length=193272479744, operationdetail=..., readonly=false, total_done=@0x7f3cc98e7518) at GParted_Core.cc:2471

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Curtis Gedak (gedakc)]

Only one GParted process is *supposed* to be permitted to run at any one time. From testing the gparted 0.11.0 package in ubuntu 12.04, I can confirm that multiple running copies of GParted are permitted.

An enhancement was made to GParted 0.16.2 that permits only one instance of GParted to execute at a time. Following is a link to the relevant upstream bug report that also contains the "permit only one running instance" patch.

gparted doesn't inhibit systemd mounting, leading to potential data loss
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676

GParted 0.16.2 was released upstream on September 18, 2013.