Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2010-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
> > In particular: v1.9.0-137-g048602c > > > > http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commitdiff;h=048602c1d5df > >93ddf4 > > > >ped_partition_busy: do not call the libparted exception handler > > > >Modify libparted/arch/linux.c _partition_get_part_dev() to not call > >_device_st

Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2009-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 30 November 2009, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Looks correct. I don't know exactly which setup I used for Ubuntu. > I think, I had /dev/sda1, 20GB ext4, and /dev/sda2, 16 GB swap. s/sda2/sda5/; sda2 was the logical partition; sda5 the actual swap. > I first wanted to use the whole disk a

Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2009-11-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Frans, Thanks for your investigation into this problem. I am impressed! On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:58:31AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 29 November 2009, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > What can be seen from your logs is that you're creating an LVM on RAID > setup using manual partiti

Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2009-11-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 04:40:09AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > and if I check 'free' I see that swap is disabled. So AFAICT your action > > to write the partition table again from fdisk was probably redundant. > > This may not be entirely correct: at least partman itself is (or can be) > confused

Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2009-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 30 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > If I then switch to a debug shell and do 'fdisk -l /dev/hda', I see that > - despite the error message - the partition table *has* been changed, > and if I check 'free' I see that swap is disabled. So AFAICT your action > to write the partition table a

Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2009-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 30 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I *can* reproduce the error by manually activating swap on /dev/hda5 > from a debug shell just before starting partman [...] [...] > Some wild theories: > 1) this is a libparted bug; somehow it manages to confuse itself about >the state of the disk

Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2009-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 558686 partman-base severity 558686 important thanks On Sunday 29 November 2009, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > parted_server: OUT: Error informing the kernel about modifications to > partition /dev/sda2 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't > know about any changes you made to

Processed: Re: Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2009-11-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 558686 partman-base Bug #558686 [debian-installer] Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'partman-base'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions 20091123-00:01. > sev