Ubuntu
gparted package

gparted crashes on scan

Bug #1318241 reported by Vincent Gerris
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gparted (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
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Bug Description

a disk attached has as corrupt partition table.
When Gparted is started it complains about it and falls back to "a copy" but then later it shows that libparted has a bug.
When running from a terminal, this is the output:
(gpartedbin:23707): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 750 was not found when attempting to remove it
Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdc
The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.
Backtrace has 9 calls on stack:
  9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7f989f4c74b1]
  8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3f5f6) [0x7f989f4f75f6]
  7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x49) [0x7f989f4ccf99]
  6: gpartedbin() [0x4701e9]
  5: gpartedbin() [0x4792d9]
  4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1(+0x41a4d) [0x7f989df58a4d]
  3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x6df15) [0x7f989d574f15]
  2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x8182) [0x7f989c8cc182]
  1: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x7f989c5f930d]
Assertion (last_usable <= disk->dev->length) at ../../../libparted/labels/gpt.c:994 in function _parse_header() failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gparted 0.18.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 10 22:00:53 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-02 (281 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64+mac (20130424)
SourcePackage: gparted
SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'system-image-cli'
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-02-12 (86 days ago)

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Vincent Gerris (vgerris) wrote :
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Vincent Gerris (vgerris) wrote :

I found it is a bug in parted.
It is fixed in the latest version of parted, which can be found here:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.1.tar.xz
I needed libuuid1
and libdevmapper-dev to compile and change the source code:
parted/ui.c from:
    rl_attempted_completion_function = (CPPFunction*) complete_function;
to
    rl_attempted_completion_function = (rl_completion_func_t*) complete_function;

to fix compiling.

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Vincent Gerris (vgerris) wrote :

I would love to commit the patch but I do not have access to the git repo as it seems:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/download.shtml

I hope a new package of the latest parted can be inlcuded. thanks

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Your partition table is corrupt: it claims the disk is larger than it actually is. You may be able to use gdisk to repair this.

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Vincent Gerris (vgerris) wrote :

Did you read the whole thing?
I know my partition table is corrupt. I am filing the bug because something goes wrong!
parted crashes!
I recompiled it using the instructions above and then it does not crash.
Even the output shows that it is a bug so please don't change statuses if you are not sure.

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Incomplete
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Vincent Gerris (vgerris) wrote :

If anyone can point me to the process of submitting a fix, I'd be happy to.
It will involve updating the parted package and the fix to compile it on 14.04 is in post #2.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

I am sure; debian and ubuntu are still using a rather old version of parted because the installer still depends on features that were removed in parted 3. In that version of parted, it simply refused to handle such a broken partition table. This has since been improved to give you the chance to repair the error instead. We hope to update parted in the next release of Ubuntu.

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Mikhail (doe-dtse9) wrote :

My only workaround for the moment is that I'm using the precise version of gparted and libparted0debian1, which in newer versions of trusty are resulting in a crash and I have to kill gpartedbin everytime when gparted starts to scan for removable devices, I'm not a coder myself and I can't provide a fix in a source code in order to be able to do this, but apt-pinning is a way to go in case I have to swap versions without upgrading one of these packages, in this case gparted libparted0debian1 are the main reason for needing downgrade until the next version of gparted is fixed.

I know that this bugtracker is reffering to the latest version of gparted so I can't suggest anything else so far.

I hope that's being useful and I hope this will help others to struggle with the bug.

:)

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