devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect assert failure: devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect: atasmart.c:2687: sk_disk_get_blob: Assertion `(size_t) ((uint8_t*) p - (uint8_t*) d->blob) == size' failed.

StacktraceTop:raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
__assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6
sk_disk_get_blob (d=0xb01010, blob=0x7fffdc256578,
main (argc=<value optimized out>,

This bug usually happens after #bug 419662

Got this just after bug #419663

The previous comments apply to me - I get a failure and as soon as soon as I report it (or cancel) (I think one of the two numbers above) and this one is then there waiting to be reported.

I got this on boot along with bug #419663

I get this occasionally with no discernible pattern or cause and though I have seen the other bugs mentioned also, this specific crash occurred just now since a clean boot several hours previous, without any other crash occurring beforehand. Unfortunately, I just have no idea what this program is, or what it is doing, so it's hard to think of which other details might be pertinent to the matter!?

i got it all time i run Palimpsest 2.28.0 with 2 usb disk, usualy after #419663 bug
some times i got it without running palimpsest

If this helps: I have two 1.5T disks, ext4, and lvm2 in the mix, in addition to a bunch of usb-disk ports, and of course the normal hard drive, dvd, and NVidia graphics card.

Happens just after login.

Fix committed upstream.

Fixed in 0.17-1 in Debian.

The crash appends with two similar PCs (AMD64 dual core)...
The second one is which i make this bug report, with every packet up to date..

I was trying to read a Sony 1Gb mp3 player that seemed to have a bad partitioning table (impossible to erase partitions, impossible to join both existing fat partitions... imposible to reformat these to fat, they supposed to already be in fat...)

Thanks Marcelo. Please note that the crash is already understood and fixed, so no need for further data. It will be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04.

Is the fix going to be in the updates to 9.10 or will it be in 10.04 only?

Regards,
Alexey.

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 02:30:12 pm Martin Pitt wrote:
> Thanks Marcelo. Please note that the crash is already understood and
> fixed, so no need for further data. It will be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04.

Stilor [2009-10-28 21:51 -0000]:
> Is the fix going to be in the updates to 9.10 or will it be in 10.04
> only?

I don't think that it is terribly important to have in 9.10, since the
only thing that it causes is that the SMART monitor wouldn't work (but
it's not clear whether it would work on your device anyway).

Thanks for the explanation of the possible consequences. I saw this
assertion when my Seagate FreeAgent comes out of a power-saving mode - so
I was not sure if it could cause some more serious issues (e.g. some
earlier kernels lost this device completely when power-saving occurred -
leading to filesystem corruption).

Regards,
Alexey.

Martin, please reconsider backporting the fix to 9.10. Kubuntu doesn't have the nice option of being able to ignore crashes of this type like Ubuntu does. Constantly having to dismiss this error gets annoying. Thanks.

Kevin Christmas [2009-11-01 16:23 -0000]:
> Martin, please reconsider backporting the fix to 9.10. Kubuntu doesn't
> have the nice option of being able to ignore crashes of this type like
> Ubuntu does. Constantly having to dismiss this error gets annoying.

Neither Ubuntu nor Kubuntu is supposed to have Apport enabled by
default in the first place. This is probably an upgrade error in your
case, see bug 465619.

"Stilor wrote on 2009-10-28: #18

Thanks for the explanation of the possible consequences. I saw this
assertion when my Seagate FreeAgent comes out of a power-saving mode - so
I was not sure if it could cause some more serious issues (e.g. some
earlier kernels lost this device completely when power-saving occurred -
leading to filesystem corruption).

Regards,
Alexey."

I also have a Seagate FreeAgent connected to my system.

~Steve

0.17-1 synced into lucid, which fixes this.

I am running 9.10 within wubi. I also have a Seagate Freeagent drive attached via USB. I see this error come up when I power the system back up after suspending.

Actually I can't see where and what bug fix had been released. I'm running Karmic, I got a Seagate Freeagent drive too, and this bug keep happening for many times these days and even just now.

Sorry for that I didn't noticed the fix is only released for Lucid ONLY.

I spend many time and money on promoting ubuntu in my contry, to normal users, schools, and even gov. And there're two big stock company is contacting us and hoping us to help them to replace their hunderds or even thousonds staff desktop which is running WindowsXP now, by Ubuntu.

And I can say, Any End-User who see a bug/crash report might be panic. Especially when the same bug/crash keep happening and scaring them. They'll challenge the stability and software quality ofon Ubuntu just because of these kind of _tiny_ bugs.

I, and I think not only me, wish the fix could backport to 9.10 soon...
The bug is already fixed and the bug-fixed version is already exist in Lucid, isn't it?
Backporting the fix saves Ubuntu, and helps people who's promoting ubuntu like me.
Thanks alot!

so I put in a Compact disk to write, I select the ISO right click on it and select "write to disk". bamp, something crashed......

I change back to windows

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:59 AM, yasaswi <email address hidden>wrote:

> so I put in a Compact disk to write, I select the ISO right click on it
> and select "write to disk". bamp, something crashed......
>
> --
> devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect assert failure:
> devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect: atasmart.c:2687: sk_disk_get_blob:
> Assertion `(size_t) ((uint8_t*) p - (uint8_t*) d->blob) == size' failed.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419662
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “libatasmart” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “libatasmart” source package in Karmic: Triaged
> Status in “libatasmart” package in Fedora: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: devicekit-disks
>
> Crashed without any specific reason.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: amd64
> AssertionMessage: devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect: atasmart.c:2687:
> sk_disk_get_blob: Assertion `(size_t) ((uint8_t*) p - (uint8_t*) d->blob) ==
> size' failed.
> Date: Wed Aug 26 19:54:28 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath:
> /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect
> Package: devicekit-disks 006-0ubuntu1
> ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect
> /dev/sdb 1
> ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
> Signal: 6
> SourcePackage: devicekit-disks
> StacktraceTop:
> raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
> abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6
> sk_disk_get_blob () from /usr/lib/libatasmart.so.4
> ?? ()
> Title: devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect assert failure:
> devkit-disks-helper-ata-smart-collect: atasmart.c:2687: sk_disk_get_blob:
> Assertion `(size_t) ((uint8_t*) p - (uint8_t*) d->blob) == size' failed.
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic x86_64
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i have the same problem today