Bug on Fdisk

[Ricardo Martinez]

I cannot use fdisk, and it show me an error of GNU Fdisk. I figured out that was a flash memory the problem. 

When I try fdisk without the USB Stick, it goes well. 

When I try run fdisk /dev/sdb (the flash memory), I get this:

$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

GNU Fdisk 1.2.4

Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

Backtrace tiene 14 llamadas en espera:

  14: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2a) [0xe9df0a]

  13: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x42507) [0xed5507]

  12: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x43317) [0xed6317]

  11: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x4460c) [0xed760c]

  10: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0xf7b1) [0xea27b1]

  9: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x262) [0xea6032]

  8: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x45fa3) [0xed8fa3]

  7: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x4619f) [0xed919f]

  6: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0xea6e15]

  5: fdisk() [0x80591a9]

  4: fdisk() [0x80509f9]

  3: fdisk() [0x804b1ab]

  2: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x126bd6]

  1: fdisk() [0x804b0f1]

You found a bug in GNU Fdisk.                                             

This may have been fixed in the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check, please email:

address@hidden

or (preferably) file a bug report at:

http://parted.alioth.debian.org/bugs/

Your report should contain the version of this release (1.2.4) along with the

error message below, the output of

parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and additional information about your setup you consider important.

La aserción (head_size <= 63) en ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:659 en la

función probe_partition_for_geom() ha fallado.

Cancelado

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It says: "The assertion(head_size <= 63) en ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:659 in the function probe_partition_for_geom() failed"

Well, I hope you can help with this problem in the future. And thanks for that...