Hi, ... it seems this bug is also affecting i386 and s390.
I CCed bug-parted@gnu.org, since it probably concerns upstream too. For info, the bug is that in some cases (triggered in my case by running inside the debain-installer) print shows no output, which is pretty much damaging for tools which parse the parted output. Here is the original bug report : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392767 I also CCed debian-boot@lists.debian.org, since this affects d-i, and doesn't seem to be something only for powerpc, and someone with d-i image and mklibs knowledge may have a clue of why this appears for me inside the d-i image, but never in the installed system. That said, i also sometime see it inside the d-i image, but in a chroot of the installed system. Frans and Joeyh, this affects the RAID/LVM code, i am not sure if this is rc-critical, or may affect the upcoming rc1, but i will try to fix this as fast as i can. We may think about removing the dependency on parted output parsing, and replace that with a little libparted program instead. Colin, it would be nice if you could comment on this, i believe this bit of code may be yours. I traced the bug to the table.c:table_render call in do_print, where the printf of the rendered table starts, but then suddenly is stopped. This may well mean that there is probably a extraneous \0 inside that string, for some obscure reason, i will do some further checking of the string result later today. The most strange thing is that this happens some times, and some other times it does not, some time it is consistent, and others it gets triggered around 50% of the times. And enabling PED_DEBUG printing seems to make it appear less often. Here is attached irc log between waldi and me, which made me realize this issue is more generic than i first thought. Bastian if you happen to remember more information about when you faced this bug and described it, it would be welcome. 13:48 < svenl> waldi: do you have a clue about the parted-in-d-i bug ? 13:48 < waldi> svenl: which bug? 13:48 < svenl> waldi: how can it be possible that parted works perfectly fine in the installed system, while in d-i, it dies when trying to print the string. 13:49 < svenl> waldi: you launch d-i on a powermac, then go into the console, and run parted, it will not show the partitions, or sometimes will show them and otherwise not. 13:49 < waldi> that is not a d-i problem 13:49 < waldi> i've described that problem months ago without any outcome 13:50 < svenl> oh. 13:50 < svenl> do you have a link of the description ? 13:50 < waldi> not here 13:50 < svenl> waldi: why does it show up in d-i, and not in the installed system then ? 13:50 < waldi> unknown 13:50 < svenl> do you vaguely remember something about the issue, where you saw it ? 13:51 < waldi> no 13:51 < svenl> what box / arch you where running. 13:51 < waldi> i386 and s390 AFAIK 13:51 < svenl> waldi: the bug is : 392767 13:51 < svenl> oh. 13:51 < svenl> so it doesn't touch only powerpc. 13:52 < svenl> can you comment something on bug 392767 about this ? Include this log or something. 13:52 < svenl> waldi: i was wondering if a mklibs-copy'ed d-i image may not show this bug. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
