I have a disk with what seems a corrupt GPT partition table. When using parted in a stock installation of Debian 7; I get the folowing dump;
I hope to have been of service reporting this bug. Glad to answer any inquerries Kind regards, Hans root@LAB:~# parted /dev/sdd GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/sdd Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdd Retry/Ignore/Cancel? i Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used. OK/Cancel? ok Backtrace has 8 calls on stack: 8: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x29) [0xb773f2a9] 7: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x4b6be) [0xb777d6be] 6: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x61) [0xb7747171] 5: parted() [0x804e71b] 4: parted(interactive_mode+0x116) [0x8056186] 3: parted(main+0x1906) [0x804dd86] 2: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb7584e46] 1: parted() [0x804de25] 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 (2.3) 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 (last_usable <= disk->dev->length) at ../../../libparted/labels/gpt.c:723 in function _parse_header() failed. Aborted root@LAB:~# Issuing the reccomended print commands has no use, as parted gives the same error of course...