Re: Fw: Bug Report (Resolved)

[Brian C. Lane]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:53:12PM -0700, Richard Gradle wrote:
> The problem reported below was caused by the presence of a USB thumb drive on 
> one of the USB ports.
> 
> When I removed the thumb drive, the Parted software executed without problem.
> 
> The problem repeated when I was running updates from the repository.  The USB 
> thumb drive was present on a USB port and parts of the update failed for the 
> reason below.  Removal of the thumb drive again resolved the problem.

The error is caused by parted's CHS guessing code. These assertions have
been removed in parted 2.4. You can work around this problem by erasing
the partitioning on the USB device and re-partitioning it. Or unplugging
it ;)

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