[Parted-maintainers] Bug#328694: parted: Does not recognize partitions on sun disklabel disk anymore

[Frans Pop]

Package: parted
Version: 1.6.23-1
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

/me considered setting higher priority for this bug as it breaks
d-i installs on Sparc as existing partitions are not recognized.

Setting up parted (1.6.21-1) ...
fjp at gimli:~/parted$ sudo parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-4103.920 megabytes
Disk label type: sun
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
1          0.000   2860.839  ext3
4       2860.840   3627.268  ext3
2       3627.268   4103.920  linux-swap

Setting up parted (1.6.23-1) ...
fjp at gimli:~/parted$ sudo parted /dev/hda print
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.

Same error happens in later versions (tested up to 1.6.24-2).

fdisk reports the following:
fjp at gimli:~/parted$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8892 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/hda1             0      6200   2929500   83  Linux native
   /dev/hda2          7861      8894    488092+  82  Linux swap
   /dev/hda3             0      8894   4202415    5  Whole disk
   /dev/hda4          6200      7861    784822+  83  Linux native
   
/dev/hda3 is the typical sun disklabel "whole disk partition"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-sparc64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.4-9      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.6-12               1.6.23-1   The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline4                  4.3-16     GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

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