[Parted-maintainers] Bug#276721: tries to open non-existing device files and hangs

[Eduard Bloch]

#include <hallo.h>
* Sven Luther [Sun, Oct 17 2004, 11:44:17PM]:

> > > What confused me is you speaking of /dev/hda1. Are you sure you have the devfs
> > > stuff ? What kernels are you using anyway ?
> > 
> > Yes. And I have devfsd to not remember all the long number. So yes, I
> > have both, devfs and /dev/hda ;)
> 
> Ok. This may be what is confusing parted maybe, can you try again without
> having devfsd running ? 

Yes, I tried. Similar picture with strace, lots of part* opening (not
existing partitions). But this time there was no devfsd behind, so it
did not use CPU and so parted was ready after 15 seconds or so. Just
hanging after "Moving data 100%" and accessing the partitions that did
not exist. So feel free to downgrade this bug report since it should be
irrelevant for d-i, but the behaviour is ugly anyways.

MfG,
Eduard.
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