[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#767457: Error creating partition

[intrigeri]

Control: reassign -1 udisks2
Control: affects -1 + gnome-disk-utility
Control: retitle -1 Partition creation fails: calling wipefs on the newly created device node before it has appeared

Hi,

Michael Gilbert wrote (10 Nov 2014 23:03:49 GMT) :
>> [...]
>> Error creating partition
>> Error wiping newly created partition /dev/sdf1: Command-line `wipefs
>> -a "/dev/sdf1"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: wipefs: error:
>> /dev/sdf1: probing initialization failed: No such file or directory
>>  (udisks-error-quark, 0)
>> [...]

> I ran into the exact same problem just now creating a new partition on
> a hard drive, probably a race condition.

I also see that when calling udisks2's call_create_partition_sync
method (in Python, via "from gi.repository import UDisks"). So this
looks like a bug in udisks2, rather than in gnome-disk-utility.

Cheers,
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intrigeri