Bug#743816: parted and partprobe segfault on various actions

2014-04-06 Thread agaida
Package: parted Version: 2.3-18 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, parted and partprobe crashed several times on a kvm machine, not so nice if scripts need these programs. Some samples of crashes # parted -l Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write

Bug#743816: parted and partprobe segfault on various actions

2014-04-06 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I believe this is caused by the loop label changes I backported, which depend on fat and ntfs probing, which crashes for non 512 byte sector size disks. I have backported the required changes to fix that and sent the patch to Colin Watson to apply.