[Parted-maintainers] Bug#352914: parted: 512 vs 2048 bytes block size dilemma

[Milan Kupcevic]

summary 332227 51
summary 350372 34
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On 12/16/2010 02:44 AM, Frank Fegert wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:34:52PM -0500, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
>
>> At one point yaboot-installer code calls
>>
>>  /usr/lib/partconf/find-partitions --flag prep
>>
>> which is supposed to return prep boot partition, but in your case it
>> looks like it returns nothing.
> 
> not exactly nothing, but better still a clue ;-)
> 
>   ~ # /usr/lib/partconf/find-partitions --flag prep
>   Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 512 bytes, but
>   Linux says it is 2048 bytes.  A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer
>   to the web site of parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for
>   more information of what could be useful for bug submitting!  Please email a
>   bug report to bug-parted at gnu.org containing at least the version (2.3) and
>   the following message:  Assertion (disk != NULL) at
>   ../../libparted/disk.c:1548 in function ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
>   Aborted
>   ~ # echo $?
>   134
> 
> For testing purposes i copied over the find-partitions and its libs
> from the squeeze install to my already running lenny on PPC. There
> it seems to work:
> 
>   /tmp# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/ /tmp/find-partitions --flag prep
>   /dev/sda1               7.8 MiB
>   /dev/sdb1               7.8 MiB
>   /dev/mapper/mpath0p1            7.8 MiB
>   /tmp# echo $?
>   0
> 
> (Mind though that all the devices are referring to the same disk, since
> it's mapped through dual VIOS.)
> 
> Any idea what went wrong with the squeeze LPAR? Is this maybe an issue
> with the ibmvscsic kernel module?
> 

Let the patred maintainer decide whether it is a parted or ibmvscsic
module issue.

Forwarding to bug 332227 and reassigning to parted.

Milan



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