On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:57:53PM +0200, K.G. wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:10:06 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 ? > > Considering you end up with Assertion (metadata_length > 0) whenever > you create logical partitions on msdos labels which are not aligned on > cylinder boundaries with probably most libparted versions, and considering > this happens most of the time when you use MB units with Parted 1.6.24 > (and maybe 1.6.23 I don't remember), and then considering this means the > EBR of the logical partition will be on its first sector instead of > before it, i guess we need a 1.6.25 release soon, for the sake of our > users :)
Ok, let's aim for a 1.6.25 release this WE, if leslie has no time to do it, i will. How does this sound ? Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
