Re: d-i ia64 install report
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:53:15PM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:10:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Richard Hirst wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:46:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > > Richard Hirst wrote:
> > > > > parted seems to be broken. It doesn't seem able to create filesystems
> > > > > anymore. Havn't looked in to this yet, but "mkpartfs pri ext2 1000
> > > > > 2000" just returns to the prompt without apparently doing anything.
> > > > > Need to look in to this a bit more and file bug.
> > > >
> > > > I've been hearing murmerings about parted for a few days, is this a
> > > > more widespread problem? There was a new version uploaded recently.
> > >
> > > Serious bug filed on parted 1.6.6-2; the new amiga fs support breaks all
> > > filesystem creation.
> >
> > Is this specific to ia64, or is it also breaking i386?
>
> I see no reason why it would be ia64 specific. I assume it is no longer
> possible to create filesystems with parted on any arch. d-i will of
> course create filesystems for you, for ext[23], so the fact that parted
> can't currently create an fs isn't fatal for i386. It is fatal for ia64
> because we rely on parted to create the FAT boot partition filesystem.
>
> parted can still create partitions, it just can't create filesystems
> within those partitions. mkpart works, mkpartfs and mkfs don't.
This is not really a bug related to the amiga filesysttem support, but
the probe only support i added (no creation yet, or clobber), exposes a
bug in the rest of libparted, which doesn't check for the existence of
these functions before applying them.
This is rather trivial to fix, once the exact place has been pinpointed.
I will do so nextly and upload a fixed version, like i already did for
the clobber problem Petter discovered.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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