fails to tell kernel to sync partition table

[Timo Aaltonen]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

I've tried to netboot jaunty on a box that had regular partitions, but partman fails because the in-memory partition table is not updated, and because of that it claims that '/dev/sda2 is not available'. Fdisk shows correct information.

I'll attach a full debug log from the box shortly.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Ok, so to reproduce this I had a system which had normal partitions on the disk, and the only change is to use partman-auto/method lvm instead of regular.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This appears to be a udev bug: it's opening the old partition device in such a way that the device is considered busy and so fails to be removed and re-added. Dave Morley has tested an image built with http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=3d3a0a709a38805259fe07240c3ca47a120dd5d6, and this appears to succeed.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

We've just made a 139 release with this fix

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package udev - 139-1

---------------
udev (139-1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - includes changes from 138-2
    - also further patch to actually remove watches when the devices are
      removed. LP: #334278.

 -- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:41:35 +0000

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

It's not fixed yet, I still get the same error.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

these logs from trying to preseed partman-auto/method lvm, when there were more than two partitions on the disk before the installation.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

This is fixed now, thanks!

also the LVM issues are gone now.