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gparted package

gparted crashes on startup

Bug #663326 reported by JLR on 2010-10-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #545911: GParted crashes with Assertion (head_size <= 63). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gparted (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gparted

I was going to install ubuntu maverick 10.10, and from the live-cd, I ran sudo gparted.It crashed with this message.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ gparted
Inhibit all polling failed: Only uid 0 is authorized to inhibit the daemon
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo gparted
======================
libparted : 2.3
======================
Backtrace has 16 calls on stack:
  16: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2a) [0xf3487a]
  15: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x41257) [0xf6c257]
  14: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x42077) [0xf6d077]
  13: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x4336c) [0xf6e36c]
  12: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0xe161) [0xf39161]
  11: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x262) [0xf3c9f2]
  10: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x44dc5) [0xf6fdc5]
  9: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x44fcf) [0xf6ffcf]
  8: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0xf3d7d5]
  7: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x8090126]
  6: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x80a06b5]
  5: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin() [0x80c1f42]
  4: /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1(+0x31e42) [0x81be42]
  3: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x6848f) [0x77448f]
  2: /lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x5cc9) [0x157cc9]
  1: /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xc366ae]
Assertion (head_size <= 63) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:662 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gparted 0.6.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 19 14:57:25 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted

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JLR (artirj) wrote on 2010-10-19:

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flipefr (flipefr) wrote on 2010-10-19:

Thanks for taking the time to report his bug and comment on it. However, I can not reproduce it even with the maverick live cd or in maverick system. Subsequently, I'm setting its status to Incomplete. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!