Consistently reproducible "device or resource busy" error on partitioning
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lvm2 (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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lvm2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Colin Watson | ||
Jaunty |
Fix Released
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High
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Upon partitioning during install, I receive the following message:
Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
I can reliably reproduce this about 75% of the time. I believe it is so reproducible as this machine is being reimaged with a different partitioning scheme each time before I run the installer.
I will attach syslog and partman and can reproduce this as necessary to get additional information. These logs are from an HP Proliant DL320s G1 with the Jaunty server amd64 image from March 10 2009 but it is occurring on multiple different machines and disc images.
Per cjwatson I am creating a new bug rather than attaching this to an existing similar bug.
Related branches
Changed in ubiquity: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in lvm2 (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in lvm2 (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
This is still reliably repeatable on at least one machine using the Jaunty Server image from 17 March 2009.
The machine is 'berkelium' in the enablement testing environment, an HP Proliant DL360 G5.
Attached are syslog and partman from the installer. I'm pretty consistently able to reproduce this -- I just got it twice in a row. It can be reproduced here, or for reference here's what I'm doing:
1. Start with a system partitioned to use LVM.
2. Perform an install attempting to repartition the LVM space as a single normal partition.
3. Observe the behavior described above.
I'm not sure if the steps above are specifically related to reproducing this bug, but merely describing what we're doing when we see it.