Re: [Gptfdisk-general] Bug#649054: cgdisk says: "Partition 1 doesn't begin on a 4149778177-sector boundary."

[Guillaume D. <gu...@ir...>]

Le jeudi 17 novembre 2011 à 02:02 -0500, Ariel a écrit :
> Package: gdisk
> Version: 0.8.1-1~bpo60+1
> Severity: normal

Hello,

> 
> If you choose align from the menu, then hit enter without typing anything it
> thinks you want a "4149778177-sector" alignment (and if you go back to the
> option it thinks it's a -145320191 sector alignment).
> 
> The strange alignment only seems to show up when you do verify - if you
> actually add a partition it doesn't seem to use the alignment, but I didn't
> test extensively.

I didn't reproduce this with the same version on sid. I'm not sure
you've encountered the bug with cgdisk but maybe with gdisk (as you
describe the scenario).

> 
> I would expect hitting enter without typing anything to leave the old alignment.

It actually select the default value (which is "hardcoded" at 2048 in
gpt.h: #define DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT 2048).

> 
> And if I can add a side bug, on gdisk it properly detects the alignment (8 in
> my case), but then when you go to change it, it says "default = 2048" which is
> not what the old alignment was.

I've Cced upstream user list, as i can't test with a real device but
only with a test file i've generated with dd (maybe people have ideas on
your issue).

> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.3
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages gdisk depends on:
> ii  groff-base                1.20.1-10      GNU troff text-formatting system (
> ii  libc6                     2.13-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.1-4      GCC support library
> ii  libicu44                  4.4.1-7        International Components for Unico
> ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  libpopt0                  1.16-1         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
> ii  libstdc++6                4.6.1-4        GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  libuuid1                  2.17.2-9       Universally Unique ID library
> 
> gdisk recommends no packages.
> 
> gdisk suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 

-- 
Guillaume Delacour <gu...@ir...>