[Parted-maintainers] Bug#557044: parted: Parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19 not informing the kernel of changes to the partition table

[Steven Shiau]

Oops... I accidentally sent an unfinished mail.

The info I did not put:

On GParted bugzilla, a bug about parted 1.9.0 not informing the kernel
of changes to the partition table has been confirmed [1]. I believe this
bug also exists in the parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5, which is now in
Debian Sid.

A patch file on git.debian.org is available:
http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commit;h=ad25892bb995f61b0ddf801ed1f74e0b1e7390ce
Or you can find it at the fedora site:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=129982

Hope this one can be applied in parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5, or the
upcoming 1.9.0 (if it will be available soon), too. My 2 cents.

[1]. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601574#c13

Steven Shiau wrote:
> Package: parted
> Version: 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> Parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19 not informing the kernel of changes to the partition
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages parted depends on:
> ii  libc6             2.10.1-7               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libncurses5       5.7+20090803-2         shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  libparted1.8-12   1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
> ii  libreadline5      5.2-7                  GNU readline and history libraries
> 
> parted recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages parted suggests:
> pn  parted-doc                    <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

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