Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

[Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 04:40:09AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > and if I check 'free' I see that swap is disabled. So AFAICT your action
> > to write the partition table again from fdisk was probably redundant.
> 
> This may not be entirely correct: at least partman itself is (or can be) 
> confused about the state of the partition table.
> 
> I saw a mildly corrupted dialog listing partitions available for RAID after 
> the error. After rewriting the partition table using fdisk, the dialog was 
> correct.

Sorry, I did not check with part-manager if it shows the updated partition
table before rewriting it using fdisk. After rewriting, it was fine, that's
all I can tell.

Greetings, Torsten