Re: Bug on Fdisk

[Jim Meyering]

Ricardo Martinez wrote:

> 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.
...
> La aserción (head_size <= 63) en ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:659 en la
> función probe_partition_for_geom() ha fallado.
> Cancelado
> __________
>
> 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...

Thanks for the report.
Your problem is nearly identical to one from four days ago,
and even affects the same device name, /dev/sdb, so my reply
to that other report should help you, too:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10251/focus=10254