[Bug 1543704] Re: Parted can't handle lack of space between logical partitions

[Ｖ字龍(Vdragon)]

Here's the details and reproducible steps on Parted mailinglist:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2016-07/msg00001.html

Interestingly, while

Number  Start    End      Size     Type      File system  Flags
 1      1s       204799s  204799s  extended               lba
 6      3s       202751s  202749s  logical
 5      202752s  204799s  2048s    logical

does lack of space between logical partitions Parted doesn't complain,
while after I fix the order of partitions using fdisk like this

Device  Start    End Sectors  Size Id Type
1           1 204799  204799  100M  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
5           3 202751  202749   99M 83 Linux
6      202752 204799    2048    1M 83 Linux

Parted starts to crash...

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Title:
  Parted can't handle lack of space between logical partitions

Status in parted package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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