Re: Bug in GNU Parted 1.7.1 ped_disk_next_partition() failed QTparted fails accessing drive with questionable partition table

[randy cole]

Additional Info about my bug report:

address@hidden:/media# parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 1.6.9
--- snip ---
Using /dev/sdb
Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that another
partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have
the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Ignore/Cancel? ignore
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
(parted)                                   


address@hidden:/# fdisk /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd528ee44

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         638     5124700    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2             639        7583    55785712    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3            7596       14593    56211435    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5            7596       10634    24410736    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6           10696       13882    25599546    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7           14345       14593     2000061   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb8           14594       18844    34146126    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb9           18845       25045    49809501    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb10          25046       26625    12691318+   7  HPFS/NTFS


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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:12 AM, randy cole <address@hidden> wrote:

Run qtparted, displays list of drives.  When I click on /dev/sdb, it fails/locks up.  /dev/sdb has some broken partitions.

Knoppix 5.3.1 EN live DVD.  Linux Knoppix 2.6.24.4 #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 25 21:35:28 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux


Warning: Unable to open /dev
/hda read-write (Read-only file system).  /dev/hda has been open
ed read-only.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to the web site of
 parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more
informations of what could be useful for bug submitting!  Please
 email a bug report to address@hidden containing at least th
e version (1.7.1) and the following message:  Assertion (disk !=
 NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1319 in function ped_disk_next_
partition() failed.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: Could not detect file system.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: Could not detect file system.
Error: Could not detect file system.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: Could not detect file system.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: Could not detect file system.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: Could not detect file system.
Error: Could not detect file system.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: Could not detect file system.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.