Description of problem:
Running parted on a USB Flash drive failed with this:


[bcl@lister ~]$ sudo parted /dev/sdd unit co print unit s print
Backtrace has 13 calls on stack:
  13: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x33f3e11fb1]
  12: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0() [0x33f3e3b6f6]
  11: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0() [0x33f3e3be6e]
  10: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0() [0x33f3e3cb0d]
  9: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x1cb) [0x33f3e1864b]
  8: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0() [0x33f3e3df85]
  7: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0() [0x33f3e3e155]
  6: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x33f3e19115]
  5: parted() [0x40692c]
  4: parted(non_interactive_mode+0x8c) [0x40c73c]
  3: parted(main+0x63) [0x40aaa3]
  2: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x33f2e1ec5d]
  1: parted() [0x404f49]
                                                                          
fdisk shows this about the device:

[bcl@lister ~]$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdd

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
         switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
         sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdd: 4005 MB, 4005560320 bytes
21 heads, 21 sectors/track, 17740 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 441 * 512 = 225792 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeb7cdde8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1   *          19       17741     3907648    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
parted-2.1-8.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Unable to reproduce. Once I removed the partition parted read it w/o crashing.