Thanks for the report. Parted version 2.3 is relatively old. The latest version is 3.1, are you able to reproduce the error with that version?
On 1 April 2014 00:05, lev abalkin <lev.abal...@insiberia.net> wrote: > Hello there! > > After creating a rather small partition on a pendrive (1000KB) I used > partprobe and got the following: > > > Backtrace has 12 calls on stack: > 12: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2e) [0x7fc80e84e2ee] > 11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3e04d) [0x7fc80e87804d] > 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3e43e) [0x7fc80e87843e] > 9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x40c73) [0x7fc80e87ac73] > 8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x163) > [0x7fc80e854053] > 7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3f72b) [0x7fc80e87972b] > 6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x407c3) [0x7fc80e87a7c3] > 5: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x58) > [0x7fc80e8544f8] > 4: partprobe() [0x4013a0] > 3: partprobe(main+0x20e) [0x4011fe] > 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) > [0x7fc80d7f4ead] > 1: partprobe() [0x401249] > A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of parted > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information of > what could be useful for bug submitting! Please email a bug report to > bug-parted@gnu.org containing at least the version (2.3) and the > following message: Assertion (head_size > 0) at > ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:661 in function > probe_partition_for_geom() failed. > Abgebrochen > > I hope this is helpful in some way. Do you need any more information? > > Thanks for all your awsome work so far and all the best for the future! > A loyal fan and user of GNU software > > >