when trying to create a partition on an empty disk using gpart it segfaults when /dev/ is added in front of the device name: # gpart create -s GPT /dev/da2 da2 created # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs /dev/da2 Segmentation fault (core dumped) # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs da2 da2p1 added it also happens when I use MBR: # gpart delete -i 1 da2 da2p1 deleted # gpart destroy da2 da2 destroyed # gpart create -s MBR da2 da2 created # gpart add -t freebsd /dev/da2 Segmentation fault (core dumped) # gpart add -t freebsd da2 da2s1 added This seems not occur for gmirror devices: # swapoff /dev/mirror/gm0s1b # gpart delete -i 2 mirror/gm0s1 mirror/gm0s1b deleted # gpart add -b 1572864 -s 262144 -t freebsd-swap -i 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s1 mirror/gm0s1b added # swapon /dev/mirror/gm0s1b How-To-Repeat: - add a new single empty disk to your system - configure this disk with gpart, prepend /dev to your devicenames
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-geom Over to maintainer(s).
State Changed From-To: open->closed Fixed in 9-CURRENT and 8.0-BETA3