[Bug 271281] gpart: wrong and useless error message "Invalid argument" when gpart fails due to internal bugs

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Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 16:06:17 UTC 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271281

            Bug ID: 271281
           Summary: gpart: wrong and useless error message "Invalid
                    argument" when gpart fails due to internal bugs
           Product: Base System
           Version: Unspecified
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: sblachmann@gmail.com

One longstanding hassle with setting up FreeBSD is gpart and its bugs.
For example, gpart frequently fails to create partitions for unknown reasons.
It then always prints "Invalid argument" when the arguments are perfectly
correct, and some bug makes it fail.

It is highly annoying and embarassing to see that FreeBSD has deteriorated that
much that it is not even capable to set up partitions, and the need to have a
Linux live CD handy, just for setting up drives.

Suggested solution:
So, in case of failure in spite of valid arguments please have gpart print
diagnostics information instead of "Invalid argument" and ask the user to file
a bug report against gpart.

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