I am working at extending the life of my pc1, which it now turns out seems rather sluggish pclos kde-mini and a couple of the the other DE LXDE and Openbox.
During the work with the different DE it became clear "oils' ain't oils". I have a clear problem with one of my 4GB USB keys which for some reason will upset a version of
parted ( used in
draklive-install i believe)
1.. used in liveCD and installed (not a surprise) KDE and KDE-mini and LXDE-mini
2.. an older version of
GParted (0.6.4-1) live boot CD date handwritten on my burnt CD from ISO, 2010-October-26
The response to the use of
parted -l will be "failure" as here (same failure when running
draklive-install):
# parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD800BB-00JH (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 7872MB 7872MB primary fat32 boot
2 7872MB 80.0GB 72.2GB extended
5 7872MB 24.7GB 16.8GB logical fat32
6 24.7GB 47.4GB 22.8GB logical fat32
7 47.4GB 57.4GB 10.0GB logical ext3
8 57.4GB 62.8GB 5369MB logical ext3
Backtrace has 16 calls on stack:
16: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x20) [0xb7869350]
15: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3c7d6) [0xb789a7d6]
14: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3d488) [0xb789b488]
13: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3e6b3) [0xb789c6b3]
12: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0xf48f) [0xb786d48f]
11: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x27f) [0xb78707ef]
10: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x40164) [0xb789e164]
9: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(+0x403ca) [0xb789e3ca]
8: /usr/lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x79) [0xb7871579]
7: parted() [0x804db66]
6: parted() [0x804ea9c]
5: parted() [0x8050b87]
4: parted() [0x8051ceb]
3: parted(main+0x35) [0x8051ea5]
2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb769fdb6]
1: parted() [0x804bf71]
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Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:661 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Aborted
live-boot GParted3 (0.11.0-7)When I test with
parted -l using downloaded ISO of GParted 3 (0.11.0-7) burnt to CD (md5sum checked ok) (using pc2, but not relevant I believe) then the response on problem USB key is:
..
The two 1TB hard drives data left out
..
..
Model: TOSHIBA TOSHIBA USB DRV (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 4008MB <--- to distinguish a bit from the "Good Key of 2GB used too)
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 4129kB 4008MB 4004MB primary fat32 lba
parted -v
parted (GNU parted) 2.3
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The result showing the problem USB key no longer seem to upset
parted. GParted 3 is a live boot linux CD and I let it load in konsole mode and ran in command line mode
parted -l etc....
As can be seen the
parted version number gives
version 2.3 the same as in above, ie version number the same. That is giving me some trouble to understand.
I have downloaded the source of
parted v 2.4 and 3.4 from here:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bottom of page. Just out of curiosity and I think with and idea of trying to run the file
parted but I am out of my depth as it seems to indicate one needs to do some compiling.
Looking in the changelog there was a note about fixing:
Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:661 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. something had been changed, I think it may have been in v 3.0
Anyone experienced enough to have a look and see what is going on? Is Gparted 3 live boot using
parted version 3.0 and the
part -v version response not been updated.
The older GParted and the new GParted caries the same
parted version 2.3 old one fails on my problem and new one does not
Edit: 16 Jan 2012A note for myself. I found another 4GB Toshiba drive physically looking the same, but this does not fail the
parted -l test.
