[Thincrust-devel] Fedora 12 issues

[Bryan Kearney]

David Huff was looking into this. He is at Fudcon, and should be back 
tomorrow (ish). We can bug him then about pushing this fix out.

-- bk

On 12/04/2009 08:40 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> Thanks, I will track it.
> The parted issue appears to be that the partprobe process which happens
> after the loopback mount is failing.  This is a legitimate reason for
> parted to fail, since some usermode tools will be unable to properly
> read kernel device table.
>
> But since this problem does not seem to hinder appliance-creator then, I
> would argue,  the return code (1) should be accepted.
>
> The typo in the error message is just bunk, this should be fixed.
>
> But for now, commenting out those lines worked.
>
> -Thomas Hatch
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jared Smith <jaredsmith at jaredsmith.net
> <mailto:jaredsmith at jaredsmith.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:thatch45 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > I am having an issue with appliance-creator and fedora 12.  when
>     I attempt
>      > to make any appliance it spits out a python error:
>
>     You're not the only one...
>
>      > Any idea what is going on?  Is this a known bug?
>
>     I have a *bit* of a clue as to what's happening.  Something changed
>     with regards to the way parted handles drives after it's changed the
>     partition tables.  The appliance-creator program doesn't like the
>     return value from parted, so it throws an error.  Unfortunately,
>     there's a typo in the line that gets printed to tell you there's an
>     error, so it throws even more errors.
>
>     Someone else on the list (who I'm sure is much more clueful than I am)
>     said he was looking at this a few days ago, but I haven't seen any
>     follow-up on it.  In the meantime, I've got an open bug in bugzilla
>     (525900) which documents the typo, but not what changed with regards
>     to parted.
>
>     -Jared Smith
>
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