parted module crashes

[Gustavo Carneiro]

root@spectrum:~ # python /tmp/test.py
Erro de bus (core dumped)
root@spectrum:~ # cat /tmp/test.py
import parted

parted.init()

d = parted.Disk("/dev/hda")

print d.get_part_list()

root@spectrum:~ #

[Gustavo Carneiro (gjc)]

Version information:
python-parted: 0.11.2ubuntu5
parted: 1.7.1-2.1ubuntu3
OS: ubuntu edgy amd64 (but could also be reproduced in ubuntu dapper i386)

valgrind shows:

==17129== Invalid read of size 8
==17129== at 0x4014CFE: (within /lib/ld-2.4.so)
==17129== by 0x400A29D: (within /lib/ld-2.4.so)
==17129== Address 0x54AD458 is 24 bytes inside a block of size 26 alloc'd
==17129== at 0x4A2080D: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
==17129== by 0x400865F: (within /lib/ld-2.4.so)
==17129==
==17129== Invalid read of size 8
==17129== at 0x571FE10: ped_disk_next_partition (in /lib/libparted-1.7.so.1.0.0)
==17129== Address 0x9261C7150951170C is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==17129==
==17129== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core
==17129== General Protection Fault
==17129== at 0x571FE10: ped_disk_next_partition (in /lib/libparted-1.7.so.1.0.0)
==17129== by 0x0: ???

[Gustavo Carneiro (gjc)]

hmm.. python-parted no longer exists in Feisty?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. I can confirm this in Dapper with 0.11.2ubuntu4 but I doubt this will ever be fixed because the package has been orphaned.