Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 12/3/20 6:08 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > So, my wild guess is that's a regression in glibc, util-linux or the kernel > as parted wasn't updated either and no other package is involved. It *might* be related to this change [1] in glibc since the parted_server.c code uses the %ms

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 11/11/20 10:29 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Did you provide such a command ? > > No, not yet when running valgrind. But I guess I should do that on the > test system. I'll try that, thanks for the suggestion. I have tried that now. valgrind didn't find any leaks. parted_serv

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/19/20 9:29 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Is there any news on this ? Not yet. I'm currently busy with other job-related stuff, but it's still on my TODO pile, so don't worry. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universita

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-19 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Hi all, Is there any news on this ? Have a nice day! Jeroen

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/11/20 10:25 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:>> Valgrind didn't find any memory leaks, so I'm currently out of ideas: >> [..] valgrind --leak-check=yes ./parted_server >> [...] >> ==280387== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks > > I had a look at the code and wonder how the variable "device_nam

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/11/20 9:24 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Valgrind didn't find any memory leaks, so I'm currently out of ideas: Next thing to try would be replacing the parted_server binary from a known working version of the partman-base package. Older versions of the package can be found here [1]

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Valgrind didn't find any memory leaks, so I'm currently out of ideas: > [..] valgrind --leak-check=yes ./parted_server > [...] > ==280387== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks I had a look at the code and wonder how the variable "device_name" gets freed

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/10/20 11:15 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/10/20 10:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 11/9/20 10:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> Okay, that has been fixed and mounting the CD works again [1]. >>> >>> But for some reason partman (the partitioning tool) is

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Forgot the reference: On 11/10/20 11:15 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Turns out that parted_server is crashing with a: > > free(): invalid next size (fast) > > in command_open() [1]. I don't know yet why that happens but that explains > why the partitioning just hangs forever. [1

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/10/20 10:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/9/20 10:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Okay, that has been fixed and mounting the CD works again [1]. >> >> But for some reason partman (the partitioning tool) is hanging now. > > So far I know that the "DUMP" command for p

partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/9/20 10:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Okay, that has been fixed and mounting the CD works again [1]. > > But for some reason partman (the partitioning tool) is hanging now. So far I know that the "DUMP" command for partman is hanging, i.e. try executing "partman-dump" in /var/li