Hi Paul, On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Phil Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 9/20/2015 12:26 AM, James Ring wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> (please cc me on replies) >> >> I ran into an assertion error in parted running on my Kubuntu box: >> >> sjr@sjr-desktop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print > > Is this really the command that provoked this or was it something else?
Yeah, I just re-confirmed that this also causes the assertion failure. > I ask because you later show a print out of the partition table, which > you shouldn't be able to get if the print command is what is crashing. > Can you run sudo dd if=/dev/sdb count=1 | xxd and show the output? sjr@sjr-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb count=1 | xxd 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 4.5406e-05 s, 11.3 MB/s 00000000: eb63 90d0 bc00 7c8e c08e d8be 007c bf00 .c....|......|.. 00000010: 06b9 0002 fcf3 a450 681c 06cb fbb9 0400 .......Ph....... 00000020: bdbe 0780 7e00 007c 0b0f 850e 0183 c510 ....~..|........ 00000030: e2f1 cd18 8856 0055 c646 1105 c646 1000 .....V.U.F...F.. 00000040: b441 bbaa 55cd 135d 720f 81fb 55aa 7509 .A..U..]r...U.u. 00000050: f7c1 0100 7403 fe46 1066 0080 0100 0000 ....t..F.f...... 00000060: 0000 0000 fffa 9090 f6c2 8074 05f6 c270 ...........t...p 00000070: 7402 b280 ea79 7c00 0031 c08e d88e d0bc t....y|..1...... 00000080: 0020 fba0 647c 3cff 7402 88c2 52bb 1704 . ..d|<.t...R... 00000090: f607 0374 06be 887d e817 01be 057c b441 ...t...}.....|.A 000000a0: bbaa 55cd 135a 5272 3d81 fb55 aa75 3783 ..U..ZRr=..U.u7. 000000b0: e101 7432 31c0 8944 0440 8844 ff89 4402 ..t21..D.@.D..D. 000000c0: c704 1000 668b 1e5c 7c66 895c 0866 8b1e ....f..\|f.\.f.. 000000d0: 607c 6689 5c0c c744 0600 70b4 42cd 1372 `|f.\..D..p.B..r 000000e0: 05bb 0070 eb76 b408 cd13 730d 5a84 d20f ...p.v....s.Z... 000000f0: 83d0 00be 937d e982 0066 0fb6 c688 64ff .....}...f....d. 00000100: 4066 8944 040f b6d1 c1e2 0288 e888 f440 @f.D...........@ 00000110: 8944 080f b6c2 c0e8 0266 8904 66a1 607c .D.......f..f.`| 00000120: 6609 c075 4e66 a15c 7c66 31d2 66f7 3488 f..uNf.\|f1.f.4. 00000130: d131 d266 f774 043b 4408 7d37 fec1 88c5 .1.f.t.;D.}7.... 00000140: 30c0 c1e8 0208 c188 d05a 88c6 bb00 708e 0........Z....p. 00000150: c331 dbb8 0102 cd13 721e 8cc3 601e b900 .1......r...`... 00000160: 018e db31 f6bf 0080 8ec6 fcf3 a51f 61ff ...1..........a. 00000170: 265a 7cbe 8e7d eb03 be9d 7de8 3400 bea2 &Z|..}....}.4... 00000180: 7de8 2e00 cd18 ebfe 4752 5542 2000 4765 }.......GRUB .Ge 00000190: 6f6d 0048 6172 6420 4469 736b 0052 6561 om.Hard Disk.Rea 000001a0: 6400 2045 7272 6f72 0d0a 00bb 0100 b40e d. Error........ 000001b0: cd10 ac3c 0075 f4c3 5085 9725 0000 8020 ...<.u..P..%... 000001c0: 2100 07df 130c 0008 0000 0020 0300 00a3 !.......... .... 000001d0: 140d 07ef ffff 0028 0300 0070 e93c 00fe .......(...p.<.. 000001e0: ffff 83fe ffff 0098 ec3c 00f8 3100 00fe .........<..1... 000001f0: ffff 05fe ffff fe87 5355 02e0 1c1f 55aa ........SU....U. Hopefully gmail leaves the line wrapping alone in that paste... Regards, James