[Bug 1187560] Re: parted rejects GPT as corrupt, kernel + gdisk think it's ok

[Phillip Susi]

The first 16KiB does not cover the whole partition table; it's 2 sectors
longer than that for the pbmr and the primary header.


** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  parted rejects GPT as corrupt, kernel + gdisk think it's ok

Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  parted rejects the GPT on my N4 as invalid:

  # parted /dev/mmcblk0                                       
  GNU Parted 2.3
  Using /dev/mmcblk0
  Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
  (parted) p                                                                
  Error: Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt.  Try making a fresh
  table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions.

  but the kernel has no problem with this table, and gdisk also works
  with it just fine.  The backup table *is* corrupt, everyone agrees -
  but the primary seems to be valid from the kernel's POV, so parted
  ought to read it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: parted 2.3-13ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-3.8-generic 3.9.4
  Uname: Linux 3.9.0-3-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jun  4 13:54:22 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-24 (984 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: parted
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-06 (28 days ago)

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