bug#27562: Resizepart command failes: "Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition"

zwpwjwtz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm trying to expand one logical partition (/dev/sdb8) on my hard disk, and parted aborted with the "resizepart" command:

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user@pc:~$ LANG=en_US sudo parted
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) select /dev/sdb                                                 
Using /dev/sdb
(parted) unit s                                                          
(parted) print                                                           
Model: ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 976773168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start       End         Size        Type      File system  Flags
 2      2048s       66187799s   66185752s   primary   ext4
 1      66187800s   976768064s  910580265s  extended               lba
 7      66191360s   275902463s  209711104s  logical   ext4
 5      275903198s  485618406s  209715209s  logical   ntfs
 8      485621760s  653389823s  167768064s  logical   ext4
 9      653393920s  830226430s  176832511s  logical   ext4
 6      830226432s  976766975s  146540544s  logical   ext4

(parted) resizepart 8                                                    
End?  [653389823s]? 653393919                                            
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
Backtrace has 9 calls on stack:                                          
  9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(ped_assert+0x44) [0x7f357479dea4]
  8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0x1e45f) [0x7f35747b145f]
  7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(+0xf8ba) [0x7f35747a28ba]
  6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.2(ped_disk_set_partition_geom+0x10c) [0x7f35747a359c]
  5: parted(+0x80d9) [0x556092a300d9]
  4: parted(interactive_mode+0x120) [0x556092a34ff0]
  3: parted(main+0x1386) [0x556092a2e176]
  2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0) [0x7f3573f7a830]
  1: parted(_start+0x29) [0x556092a2e1d9]


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I've already installed libparted-dev package (and its dependencies), but it seems some debug symbols are still missing.

Version info: Ubuntu 16.04 (amd64) + Parted 3.2
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