Re: Test results of partman with libparted1.8
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> I have compiled partman-base and partconf against libparted1.8 from
> experimental to see if I could reproduce the issues Otavio has been
> seeing.
>
> Initially it appeared that partman worked well in vmware (i386), until I
> tried setting up a system using LVM. After setting up LVM, the main
> partman screen failed to show the LVM volumes.
>
> I have traced this to parted_devices, which only lists the vmware SCSI
> disk(s) but fails to list the LVM volumes, even though 'dmsetup info'
> does show them and the syslog also indicates that they were created
> correctly.
>
> parted_devices uses ped_device_probe_all() to list available devices.
I've pushed a new parted source at http://people.debian.org/~otavio/
and would be nice to give a try on this one since it's much newer then
current experimental version and this also spot the problem of d-i
restarting.
I think this one doesn't has the LVM problem you saw.
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