Bug#110717: Partitioning error, repartitioned, dinstall does not notice new partitioning afterward

2002-02-03 Thread Philip Blundell
Chris Tillman wrote: >I suspect it might have something to do with the failure of del_loop >to delete the loop device after it's been used ('cause I think the >creation might take place when we are chdir to /instmnt). That's a good thought. If loop.o is a module on your machine you can check fo

Bug#110717: Partitioning error, repartitioned, dinstall does not notice new partitioning afterward

2002-02-02 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 09:16, David Kimdon wrote: > Is the following ioctl what you had in mind pb? It doesn't make the > problem go away, unfortunate. The ioctl always returns -1 for me so > maybe I'm doing something wrong. That does sound a bit strange. It'd be interesting to know what errno

Re: Bug#110717: Partitioning error, repartitioned, dinstall does not notice new partitioning afterward

2002-02-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:16:37AM -0800, David Kimdon wrote: > Hi, > > It appears as though this bug is specific to the reiserfs and bf2.4 > flavor. I just tried to reproduce it with a current idepci disk and > could not. I can reproduce it with current bf2.4 flavor and I > reproduced it with

Bug#110717: Partitioning error, repartitioned, dinstall does

2002-02-02 Thread David Kimdon
> If you go to another console while it's showing the "something is very > wrong" message box and cat /proc/mounts and /proc/swaps, does it show > anything as being still mounted? FYI I doing the same test that I was in September, that is I partitioning /dev/hdb, it doesn't appear to be mounted

Bug#110717: Partitioning error, repartitioned, dinstall does not notice new partitioning afterward

2002-02-02 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 09:16, David Kimdon wrote: > Is the following ioctl what you had in mind pb? It doesn't make the > problem go away, unfortunate. The ioctl always returns -1 for me so > maybe I'm doing something wrong. Something like that, yeah. If you go to another console while it's sho

Bug#110717: Partitioning error, repartitioned, dinstall does not notice new partitioning afterward

2002-02-02 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, It appears as though this bug is specific to the reiserfs and bf2.4 flavor. I just tried to reproduce it with a current idepci disk and could not. I can reproduce it with current bf2.4 flavor and I reproduced it with reiserfs back in September. Is the following ioctl what you had in mind p

Bug#110717: Partitioning error, repartitioned, dinstall does not notice new partitioning afterward

2001-08-30 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.13 (reiserfs); reported 2001-08-30 Severity: important Tags: woody sid I goofed up in partitioning the first time, and went back, via the dinstall menus, to partition again. When I got back to dinstall, it did not know I had repartioned the drive. I checke