Bug#586568: dosfslabel failed: 256 at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1059, <STDIN> line 10. Logical sector size is zero.

[pitamila <pitamila@free.fr>]

Package: linux-base
Version: 2.6.32-15
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (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/dash

Versions of packages linux-base depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.32     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libapt-pkg-perl               0.1.24     Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libuuid-perl                  0.02-3+b1  Perl extension for using UUID inte
ii  udev                          147-4      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  util-linux                    2.16.1-4   Miscellaneous system utilities

linux-base recommends no packages.

linux-base suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  linux-base/disk-id-manual-boot-loader:
  linux-base/disk-id-manual:
  linux-base/disk-id-convert-plan-no-relabel: true
* linux-base/disk-id-convert-plan: true
* linux-base/disk-id-convert-auto: true


here is my partition table as shown by parted.

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
 1      32.3kB  200GB   200GB   primary   ntfs            boot
 2      200GB   240GB   40.0GB  primary   ext3
 3      240GB   1000GB  760GB   extended                  lba
 5      240GB   248GB   8000MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)
 6      248GB   446GB   198GB   logical   ext3

I don't understand the "Logical sector size is zero." message
before
"dosfslabel failed: 256 at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1059, <STDIN> line 
10."

Any advise using dosfslabel on my system to diagnose more precisely the problem is
welcome.

I hope it's not because of any missusing of partition.