Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

["James P. Wallen" <jpwallen@comcast.net>]

On 10/15/2014 02:45 PM, Jape Person wrote:
> On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > > I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code
> > > systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up:
> > >
> > > ,----
> > > |         errno = 0;
> > > |         r = blkid_probe_lookup_value(b, "PTTYPE", &pttype, NULL);
> > > |         if (r != 0) {
> > > |                 if (errno == 0)
> > > |                         errno = EIO;
> > > |                 log_error("Failed to determine partition table type of %s: %m", node);
> > > |                 return -errno;
> > > `----
> > >
> > > Somebody who is familiar with libblkid (i.e. not me) might explain why
> > > blkid_probe_lookup_value() apparently failed but did not set errno.
> >
> > Great catch. Yeah, blkid_probe_lookup_value apparently just returns -1
> > on all errors, regardless of what the error was.
> >
> > This is probably a bug in systemd-gpt-auto-generator, but upstream (and
> > the maintainer) would know much more than I.
>
> Thank you, both!
>
> I'll see if I can file a cogent bug report.
>
> Please let me know if you have particular suggestions about that.

Just wanted to note that I did file a bug report 
(765586@bugs.debian.org). It was even almost cogent, except for the part 
where I pasted the contents of /etc/fstab into the template area after I 
had already given bugreport permission to gather that information 
itself! Der!

Again, thanks to Sven and Don for your interest.

Jape