Bug 546622

Thanks for the report.  I pushed a patch to fix that from Hans De Goede:

http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commitdiff;h=1983b7b517604aade6a317e8384bd5a58f8e20f5

Thanks for the report, I've backported the mentioned patch to the Fedora parted version, this is fixed in parted-1.9.0-24.fc13.

Hans,

Will be this patch also included in F12 (it's a blocker for 525900)?

(In reply to comment #3)
> Hans,
> 
> Will be this patch also included in F12 (it's a blocker for 525900)?  

I was not planning on doing any parted changes for F12, but since you ask I'll cherry pick some from the (large) -24 update and do an F-12 build.

Thanks, it would be awesone!

parted-1.9.0-17.1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/parted-1.9.0-17.1.fc12

I downloaded the RPM mention in comment #6 via koji, but now parted is segfaulting on me:

[root@hockey tmp]# dd if=/dev/zero of=file.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.00204933 s, 512 MB/s
[root@hockey tmp]# losetup /dev/loop0 file.img
losetup: /dev/loop0: device is busy
[root@hockey tmp]# parted /dev/loop0 -s mkabel msdos


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Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

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Your report should contain the version of this release (1.9.0)
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Command History:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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I also took a look at the backtrace in gdb:


Core was generated by `parted /dev/loop0 -s mkabel msdos'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  _dump_history () at ui.c:286
286	        while (all_entries[i]) {
(gdb) bt
#0  _dump_history () at ui.c:286
#1  0x000000000040b5a3 in sa_sigfpe_handler (signum=<value optimized out>, 
    info=0x7fff2d40eb30, ucontext=<value optimized out>) at ui.c:373
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0x00007f0cc200ae6c in _device_get_length (dev=0x1e8b380)
    at arch/linux.c:673
#4  0x00007f0cc200d8ce in init_file (dev=<value optimized out>)
    at arch/linux.c:1023
#5  linux_new (dev=<value optimized out>) at arch/linux.c:1283
#6  0x00007f0cc20014fb in ped_device_get (path=<value optimized out>)
    at device.c:190
#7  0x000000000040636d in _choose_device (argc_ptr=0x7fff2d40f13c, 
    argv_ptr=<value optimized out>) at parted.c:2419
#8  0x0000000000409fa1 in _init (argc_ptr=<value optimized out>, 
    argv_ptr=0x7fff2d40f130) at parted.c:2469
#9  0x000000000040a07c in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fff2d40f248) at parted.c:2522

Oops, seems like a simple backport of the fix did not suffice, sorry about that.

This is really fixed in parted-1.9.0-17.2.fc12, which will go to the updates repo soon.

parted-1.9.0-17.2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/parted-1.9.0-17.2.fc12

Thanks!  That appears to have solved the problem for me.

parted-1.9.0-17.2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.