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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: smartmontools-5.33cvs20051115


VÃclav Haisman wrote:

I get the following error with smartctl:

Internal error: unable to compile regular expression
^(Hitachi)?HDS724040KL(AT|SA)80)$parentheses not balanced
Please inform smartmontools developers at
smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net



There is in fact an invalid regular expression in the drive database module. The bug in invisible on most other platforms supported by smartmontools, because of a subtle difference in regex syntax of Cygwin and GNU regex(3).

See recent topic "unsupported disk drive?" on smartmontools support list:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=12495


Despite the error the tool seems to work fine.



Thanks. The error message can be safely ignored.

I will release a fixed package soon.

Thanks for the problem report.

Christian


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