[illumos] [OpenIndiana Distribution - Bug #4098] GNU parted "crash" (well, sort of)

Fri Sep 6 12:17:32 UTC 2013

Issue #4098 has been updated by Erik Larsson.

...and as a final piece of info, when this hard drive is attached to OI with a USB connection, everything works as expected i.e. DKIOCGMEDIAINFO returns the correct number of sectors:
<pre>
$ sudo getmediainfo /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0
dki_media_type: DK_FIXED_DISK (0x10001)
dki_lbsize: 512
dki_capacity: 625142448
dki_pbsize: 512
$ sudo getpartinfo /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0
p_start: 0
p_length: 625142448
</pre>

...and parted works as well. So the problem should lie in the storage driver that takes care of the (non-AHCI) eSATA connection.
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Bug #4098: GNU parted "crash" (well, sort of)
https://www.illumos.org/issues/4098

Author: Erik Larsson
Status: New
Priority: Normal
Assignee: OI illumos
Category: OS/Net (Kernel and Userland)
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: parted

When running parted on my eSATA-connected hard drive I get the following output:
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<pre>
$ sudo parted /dev/dsk/c5d0
GNU Parted 1.8.8
Using /dev/dsk/c5d0
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print                                                            
print
Backtrace has 7 calls on stack:
  7: /usr/lib/libparted.so.8'ped_assert+0x33 [0xfeef5be7]
  6: /usr/lib/libparted.so.8'gpt_read+0x13a [0xfef31546]
  5: /usr/lib/libparted.so.8'ped_disk_new+0x93 [0xfeef9d8f]
  4: /usr/sbin/parted'do_print+0x84 [0x8056fe8]
  3: /usr/sbin/parted'interactive_mode+0xe3 [0x805c0a3]
  2: /usr/sbin/parted'main+0x56 [0x805959a]
  1: /usr/sbin/parted'_start+0x7d [0x8054d0d]

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 (1.8.8)
along with the error message below, the output of

        parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and the following history of commands you entered.
Also include any additional information about your setup you
consider important.

Assertion ((PedSector) PED_LE64_TO_CPU (gpt->AlternateLBA) <= disk->dev->length
- 1) at unknown:0 in function unknown() failed.

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Backtrace has 8 calls on stack:
  8: /usr/lib/libparted.so.8'ped_assert+0x33 [0xfeef5be7]
  7: /usr/lib/libparted.so.8'_parse_header+0x171 [0xfef30e61]
  6: /usr/lib/libparted.so.8'gpt_read+0x179 [0xfef31585]
  5: /usr/lib/libparted.so.8'ped_disk_new+0x93 [0xfeef9d8f]
  4: /usr/sbin/parted'do_print+0x84 [0x8056fe8]
  3: /usr/sbin/parted'interactive_mode+0xe3 [0x805c0a3]
  2: /usr/sbin/parted'main+0x56 [0x805959a]
  1: /usr/sbin/parted'_start+0x7d [0x8054d0d]