Re: address@hidden: Bug#136501: Parted segfaults on startup with Minix-created partition table]

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:57:20PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> Hrm - this looks more like a kernel-mode segfault than anything else
> I've seen - I've forwarded it to the parted mailing list for comments.
> invalid operand would suggest that there's an illegal instruction - this
> should not happen!
> Comments/ideas?

Try running strace... it's probably dying on some syscall
(i.e. in the top half)

Parted does funky stuff with caches, etc., so I wouldn't be
surprised if we're causing some corner case.

Andrew