[parted-devel] [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.

[David Cantrell]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:31:17AM -0400, David Cantrell wrote:
>> Sven Luther wrote:
>>> Package: parted
>>> Version: 1.7.1
>>> Severity: grave
>>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>>
>>>
>>> When creating a mac partition table (on a 64bit powerpc XServe G5 machine),
>>> with todays d-i daily build, parted 1.7.1 is not able to show the resulting
>>> partition table. It recognizes the partition table as a mac partition 
>>> table,
>>> but shows no partitions.
>>>
>>> The partitions show up just right inside partman though, which uses 
>>> libparted.
>> Can you try with parted-1.8.0rc2 and see if the problem persists?  We've 
> 
> I am unable to build the 1.8 svn version, due to some autoconf/automake
> issues.

Trunk in parted svn may not always work.  I mean, it should for the most 
part, but don't assume that.

Try parted-1.8.0rc2.tar.bz2 from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted

>> introduced a lot of fixes for Mac disklabels in what will be the 1.8.0 
>> release:
>>
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted
> 
> Well, the problem seems to be linked in the d-i environment, since in the
> installed system things work just fine. I am really baffled by this, first
> time i see it, but it may be due to some devfs compatibility things that are
> done maybe ? Not sure though, the partition table is recognized as a mac one.

I don't know what the d-i environment is, but as far as parted goes, 
please try 1.8.0rc2.

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA