[smartmontools-support] Assertion failed: 'a' <= c && c <= 'z'

[Martin Lazar]

Hello,
smartctl failed with a request to inform you:

# smartctl /dev/sdm -i -l error
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-516.el8.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               SEAGATE
Product:              ST16000NM002G
Revision:             E002
Compliance:           SPC-5
User Capacity:        16,000,900,661,248 bytes [16.0 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Physical block size:  4096 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate:        7200 rpm
Form Factor:          3.5 inches
Logical Unit id:      0x5000c500ae432457
Serial number:        ZL20BT9X0000C002CB2G
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Thu Nov 23 10:59:39 2023 CET
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0      136         0       136        139    1491128.293           3
write:         0        0         0         0          0      73437.765           0
verify:        0        3         0         3          3        559.758           0

Non-medium error count:        0

  Pending defect count:96 Pending Defects: index, LBA and accumulated_power_on_hours follow
     1:  0x42be37118       ,  34285
Smartctl: Exception: json.cpp(39): Assertion failed: 'a' <= c && c <= 'z'
Please inform smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de, including output of smartctl -V.



# smartctl -V
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-516.el8.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

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smartmontools release 7.1 dated 2019-12-30 at 15:00:11 UTC
smartmontools SVN rev 5022 dated 2019-12-30 at 15:00:49
smartmontools build host: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
smartmontools build with: C++14, GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-19)
smartmontools configure arguments: '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-selinux' '--with-libcap-ng=yes' '--with-libsystemd' '--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system' '--sysconfdir=/etc/smartmontools/' '--with-systemdenvfile=/etc/sysconfig/smartmontools' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro  -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig'