Re: Found a bug in GNU Parted

[Jim Meyering]

jean-pierre wrote:
> Linux tells me "Don't panic!"
> Don't worry, Linux...
> ...i just want to boot openSuse from USB key 4Go
>
> versions:
> GNU Ubuntu 10.10
> GNU Parted 2.3
...
> /dev/sdb1              3904100    725692   3178408  19% /media/DCBC-0E93
...
> Assertion (head_size <= 63) à ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c: échec de
> 662 dans la fonction probe_partition_for_geom()

Thank you for the report.
That probably means your USB key's partition table is invalid.
Just in case, please post a copy of its first sectors by running
this command to save it to a file F, then attach F in your reply:

    dd if=/dev/sdb count=34 > F

If you have no valuable data on it, you can fix it by running this command:
[CAUTION: this will destroy the invalid partition table and any
 related data in the first 34 sectors of your "sdb" disk, and will
 make it hard to retrieve any existing info on that disk. ]

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=34

Make sure that /dev/sdb is the right one before you run this.

Then, remove the USB key, reinsert it and start your process
from the beginning.