[Parted-maintainers] Bug#460153: --editor=/usr/bin/nedit

[Paul Szabo]

Package: parted
Version: 1.7.1-5.1
Severity: normal

I find that GPT-labelled partitions become "lost" after a reboot.
The problem seems similar to that described in

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/107326

Demo of the problem (creating a partition, initializing, then unable
to read after a reboot; however parted still shows correct output):

# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 1.7.1 ...
(parted) mklabel gpt                                                      
(parted) mkpart xyz 100G 120G                                             
(parted) quit                                                             
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
....
# mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/mnt
# df -k /tmp/mnt
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             19219981     32911  18210508   1% /tmp/mnt
# umount /tmp/mnt
# shutdown -r now
....
# mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 1.7.1 ...
(parted) print                                                            
Disk /dev/sda: 2250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number  Start  End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      100GB  120GB  20.0GB  ext3         xyz        
(parted) quit                                                             
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Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz at maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-spm1.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5            5.5-5             Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.7-1         1.7.1-5.1         The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5           5.2-2             GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

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