bug#20593: bug in libparted trying to add partitions to list

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:28:41PM +1000, David Timms wrote:
> I have a HP ProBook 470 G2, 750GB disk. Formatted by manufacturer, then
> repartioned by gparted 3.2 on Fedora 20 x86_64. The original windows
> partitions have been resized and moved to make way for a Fedora 22 (TC4)
> install.
> 
> During start of the Fedora installer (Anaconda), a backtrace occurs in
> libparted.
> 
> I've created a live USB stick and booted that, which succeeds on the
> machine.
> 
> Trying many parted commands fails with the same error. The information
> from command just generates the same backtrace:
> ---
> Backtrace has 19 calls on stack:
>   19: /lib64/libparted.so.2(ped_assert+0x44) [0x7f8a48fda2f4]
>   18: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x20506) [0x7f8a48fed506]
>   17: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x11d5a) [0x7f8a48fded5a]
>   16: /lib64/libparted.so.2(ped_disk_add_partition+0x263) [0x7f8a48fdf653]
>   15: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1fde5) [0x7f8a48fecde5]
>   14: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1fe80) [0x7f8a48fece80]
>   13: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1fe80) [0x7f8a48fece80]
>   12: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1fe80) [0x7f8a48fece80]
>   11: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1fe80) [0x7f8a48fece80]
>   10: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1fe80) [0x7f8a48fece80]
>   9: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1fe80) [0x7f8a48fece80]
>   8: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x1fe1f) [0x7f8a48fece1f]
>   7: /lib64/libparted.so.2(+0x20dd5) [0x7f8a48feddd5]
>   6: /lib64/libparted.so.2(ped_disk_new+0x49) [0x7f8a48fdf279]
>   5: parted() [0x407719]
>   4: parted(interactive_mode+0xff) [0x40c9ef]
>   3: parted(main+0x119f) [0x405f1f]
>   2: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0) [0x7f8a487b9790]
>   1: parted() [0x405f77]
> ---

You can install the debuginfo using:

debuginfo-install parted

And see how much more detail it gives.

Also, could you report this against fedora 22 using bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component=parted

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