[Bug 1543704] Re: Gparted crashed on loading

[Curtis Gedak]

@Nishihama ,

This issue is caused when there is less than two unallocated sectors
between logical partitions.  The Extended Boot Record is stored in the
unallocated sector area.  In your situation the problem arises with sda5
and sda6 sda5.

332625887  end of sda5
332625888 start of sda6

The source of the crash is in the libparted library, and hence will show
up with partition tools that use libparted, such as parted or gparted.

This issue was also reported in upstream Debian.  See:

Debian Bug report logs - #819488  gparted crash with a libparted backtrace
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819488

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #819488
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819488

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Title:
  Gparted crashed on loading

Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  message as follows

  Libparted bug  found!
  Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:2313 in function add_logical_part_metadata() failed.

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