Bug 195986 - Cannot mkpart of parted-1.7.1-5 on IA64
Summary: Cannot mkpart of parted-1.7.1-5 on IA64
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 200577
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: parted
Version: rawhide
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Cantrell
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-06-20 05:53 UTC by Akio Takebe
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-08-22 15:14:50 UTC
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Description Akio Takebe 2006-06-20 05:53:06 UTC
Description of problem:
I annot mkpart by using parted-1.7.1-5 on IA64

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
parted-1.7.1-5
kernel-2.6.16-1.2255_FC6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. parted /dev/sdb
2. mkpart ext2 xxxx yyyy
  
Actual results:
[root@fc6 ~]# parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 1.7.1
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p                                                                

Disk /dev/sdb: 147GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
 1      17.4kB  268MB   268MB   fat16        primary  boot 
 2      268MB   21.7GB  21.5GB  ext3         primary       
 3      21.7GB  23.9GB  2147MB  linux-swap   primary       

(parted) mkpart primary ext2 23900 103900                                 


You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
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 visit the GNU Parted website:

        http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (1.7.1)
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.

Error: SEGV_MAPERR (Address not mapped to object)Aborted

Expected results:
create new partition.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Akio Takebe 2006-06-26 05:11:46 UTC
I get the parted from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.7.1.tar.gz.
I use it and try the mkpart.
I success making new partition.

I look like original parted works good.

Comment 2 fj-lkml 2006-07-19 02:00:06 UTC
The follwoing parted-1.7.0-headers.patch causes the problem. 

It removes the prototype declaration of ped_device_get_constraint(), 
which is why the return value of that function is considered as an integer
(32bit wide), even though its return value is a pointer (64bit wide on ia64).
Since the top half of the return value is masked by implicit cast on ia64, 
SEGV fault occured. (Oviously, this problem never happens on 32bit platforms.)

IMHO, that patch should be removed. I'm not sure why this patch is made
though.

--- parted-1.7.0/include/parted/device.h.traint	2006-05-19 16:26:47.000000000 -0400
+++ parted-1.7.0/include/parted/device.h	2006-05-19 16:27:36.000000000 -0400
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@
 extern int ped_device_sync_fast (PedDevice* dev);
 extern PedSector ped_device_check (PedDevice* dev, void* buffer,
                                    PedSector start, PedSector count);
-extern PedConstraint* ped_device_get_constraint (PedDevice* dev);
 
 /* private stuff  ;-)  */


Comment 3 David Cantrell 2006-08-22 15:14:50 UTC
Fixed in rawhide.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200577 ***


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