Hi Allison,
thanks for your bug report.
I assume you do not consider this a regression in dosfstools, otherwise
you'd probably have filed it against the dosfstools package.
The Debian udisks2 package is not shipping any downstream patches in
that regard, so it would be best if you can raise this
dosfstools 4.2 incompatibility at
https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks
It's most likely that Debian won't be the only distro affected by this.
Seeing that dosfstools 4.2 has already migrated to testing, it doesn't
really help to file an RC bug against it to prevent testing migration.
Regards,
Michael
Am 01.03.2021 um 10:10 schrieb Allison Karlitskaya:
Package: udisks2
Version: 2.9.1-3
A new version of dosfstools (4.2) just landed on testing, and we're
suddenly seeing a new failure in cockpit's integration testing:
specifically, attempting to create a fat filesystem on /dev/sda (the
direct device, not a partition) fails. This works correctly with
dosfstools 4.1.
See https://github.com/cockpit-project/bots/pull/1701
This problem is not limited to cockpit, however. You can see the
problem rather directly with this reproducer:
root@debian:~# dpkg -i dosfstools_4.1-2_amd64.deb
dpkg: warning: downgrading dosfstools from 4.2-1 to 4.1-2
(Reading database ... 70287 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack dosfstools_4.1-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking dosfstools (4.1-2) over (4.2-1) ...
Setting up dosfstools (4.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-1) ...
root@debian:~# gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.UDisks2
--object-path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda --method
org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block.Format vfat '{}'
()
but then:
root@debian:~# dpkg -i dosfstools_4.2-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 70285 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack dosfstools_4.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking dosfstools (4.2-1) over (4.1-2) ...
Setting up dosfstools (4.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-1) ...
root@debian:~# gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.UDisks2
--object-path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda --method
org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block.Format vfat '{}'
Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error
synchronizing after formatting with type `vfat': Timed out waiting for
object
note that attempting to format a partition works fine, even with the
new version:
root@debian:~# fdisk /dev/sda
[... create primary partition /dev/sda1 ... ]
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
root@debian:~# gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.UDisks2
--object-path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda1 --method
org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block.Format vfat '{}'
()
