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Package: autopartkit
Version: 1.19
Severity: wishlist
Instead of the sleep() hack, autopartkit should come into line with the
rest of d-i and use update-dev from di-utils to poke the kernel and udev
into creating devices. The attached patch should do the job, but I
haven't committed it because I can't test it myself. Could somebody
please try this out and commit it if it works?
Changelog entry:
* Use update-dev rather than the sleep() hack to get the kernel and
udev to create device nodes.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
Index: debian/control
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--- debian/control (revision 40452)
+++ debian/control (working copy)
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Package: autopartkit
XC-Package-Type: udeb
Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, e2fsprogs-udeb, cdebconf-udeb (>= 0.43), disk-detect, md-modules, lvm10-udeb | lvm2-udeb, partconf-mkfstab, di-utils (>= 1.15)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, e2fsprogs-udeb, cdebconf-udeb (>= 0.43), disk-detect, md-modules, lvm10-udeb | lvm2-udeb, partconf-mkfstab, di-utils (>= 1.19)
Provides: mounted-partitions, created-fstab, made-filesystems, partitioned-harddrives
XB-Installer-Menu-Item: 50
Description: Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe)
Index: autopartkit.c
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--- autopartkit.c (revision 40452)
+++ autopartkit.c (working copy)
@@ -106,9 +106,6 @@
/* Ignore devfs devices, used in choose_dev */
#define IGNORE_DEVFS_DEVICES 1
-/* sleep period to give udev time to create the devices */
-#define UDEV_SLEEP_HACK 3
-
#if 1
#define log_line() \
autopartkit_log(2, " Error bounding: %s %d\n",__FILE__,__LINE__)
@@ -1155,7 +1152,7 @@
* sure the device file is available when we need it.
*/
ped_disk_commit(disk_maybe);
- sleep(UDEV_SLEEP_HACK); /* Give the kernel a moment to create the device */
+ system("update-dev"); /* persuade the kernel to create the device */
makefs(mountmap[partcount].devpath, req_tmp->fstype);
}
@@ -1186,7 +1183,7 @@
make sure the device file is available when we need
it. */
ped_disk_commit(disk_maybe);
- sleep(UDEV_SLEEP_HACK); /* Give the kernel a moment to create the device */
+ system("update-dev"); /* persuade the kernel to create the device */
lvm_pv_stack_push(lvm_pv_stack, req_tmp->mountpoint, devpath);
}
@@ -1265,7 +1262,7 @@
free(vgname);
free(devpath);
}
- sleep(UDEV_SLEEP_HACK); /* Give the kernel a moment to create the devices */
+ system("update-dev"); /* persuade the kernel to create the devices */
/* Distribute logical volumes (andread@linpro.no) */
lvm_vg_stack = lvm_vg_stack_new();
@@ -1363,7 +1360,7 @@
autopartkit_log(1, " LVM lv created ok, devpath=%s\n",
devpath);
autopartkit_log(1, " LVM creating fs: %s\n", fstype);
- sleep(UDEV_SLEEP_HACK); /* Give the kernel a moment to create the device */
+ system("update-dev"); /* persuade the kernel to create the device */
if (0 == makefs(devpath, fstype))
{ /* Replace devpath placeholder with real path */
char buf[1024];
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