Comment 12 for bug 545911

Hi!

I have the same problem, but i have it on my already installed system Ubuntu 10.04. I can't use fdisk anymore.

This is the log of fdisk:

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ricky@smart:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 8 GB, 8068999680 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 981 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 981 7879851 83 Linux
Warning: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Backtrace tiene 14 llamadas en espera: [Backtrace has 14 calls remaining:]
  14: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2a) [0xa4df0a]
  13: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x42507) [0xa85507]
  12: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x43317) [0xa86317]
  11: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x4460c) [0xa8760c]
  10: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0xf7b1) [0xa527b1]
  9: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x262) [0xa56032]
  8: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x45fa3) [0xa88fa3]
  7: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x4619f) [0xa8919f]
  6: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0xa56e15]
  5: fdisk() [0x805094c]
  4: fdisk() [0x8050a30]
  3: fdisk() [0x804b1ab]
  2: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xc3ebd6]
  1: fdisk() [0x804b0f1]
Se ha detectado un error en GNU Parted. Vaya al sitio web de parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html para obtener información sobre qué puede ser útil enviar. Envíe un informe por correo a <email address hidden> que contenga al menos la versión (2.2) y el siguiente mensaje: La aserción (head_size <= 63) en ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:659 en la función probe_partition_for_geom() ha fallado.

# An error was detected on GNU Parted. [...] The assertion(head_size <= 63) en ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:659 in the function probe_partition_for_geom() failed

Cancelado
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: Intel Atom
Date: tue Jan 13 11:11:16 2011
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gparted 0.5.1-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: gparted
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86