On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:21:51AM +0200, K.G. wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:29:09 +0200 Iván Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > When I run qtparted the console show me this message): > > A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email a bug report to > > [email protected] containing the version (1.6.24) and the following > > message:Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at > > ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:1965 in function > > add_logical_part_metadata() failed. > > > > I using GNU/Linux Debian SID with kernel version 2.6. > > If you want I send you more information about my hardware/software. > > Hi, > > Thanks for your report. > If you created your partition table with (whatever)Parted, or if you were > doing some modification to it while this message occur, you should not > write to the logical partitions anymore and you should save the data they > contains mounting them read only, if there is important data on it. This > is a known bug which has a greater probability to occur in 1.6.23 and 1.6.24 > than in previous versions, and is already fixed in last SVN parted version, > so it will be fixed in 1.6.25. In the mean time it is safe to create logical > partitions, starting from an empty extended partition, using fdisk, or > even parted if you put them on cylinder boundaries...
Euh, does this mean we need to do a 1.6.25 upload pretty soon ? Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
