[karmic] parted can't create swap partitions in vm images

[Philip Muškovac]

Binary package hint: parted

In karmic I can't create any partitions of type 'linux-swap' in vm images any more which renders ubuntu-vm-builder useless.

2009-07-14 20:34:14,257 INFO : parted: invalid token: linux-swap
2009-07-14 20:34:14,259 INFO : Cleaning up
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-vm-builder", line 28, in <module>
    VMBuilder.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/__init__.py", line 65, in run
    frontend.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/plugins/cli/__init__.py", line 68, in run
    vm.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/vm.py", line 495, in create
    raise e
VMBuilder.exception.VMBuilderException: Process (['parted', '--script', '--', '/tmp/vmbuilderv9lXXv/disk0.img', 'mkpart', 'primary', 'linux-swap', '4096', '5119']) returned 1. stdout: Error: Expecting a file system type.
, stderr: parted: invalid token: linux-swap

Trying that from command line myself parted doesn't accept linux-swap as a fs anymore.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 14 20:36:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: parted 1.8.8.git.2009.06.03-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-2.17-generic
SourcePackage: parted
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-2-generic x86_64

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Try "linux-swap(new)". I got a patch accepted upstream recently to
correct this.

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

confirmed the linux-swap(new) workaround

assigning as also effects python-vm-builder as it should workaround this problem until the upstream parted fix comes down

@cjwatson do you have an upstream bug tracker you can link to?

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

have added a fix for vm-builder as part of debdiff submitted for sponsorship on bug 403216

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm going to backport the parted change; sorry for the delay. Does the vm-builder task need to stay open, in light of this?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package parted - 1.8.8.git.2009.06.03-1ubuntu5

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parted (1.8.8.git.2009.06.03-1ubuntu5) karmic; urgency=low

  * rationalise-linux-swap.dpatch: Backport upstream change to rationalise
    linux-swap fs names, and add a "linux-swap" alias (LP: #399428).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:55:31 +0100

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

No, we should be fine now.

[rowez (info-rowez)]

Trying this on Jaunty: sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite karmic needs a upgrade of python-vm-builder to 0.11.3-0ubuntu1. After upgrade with synaptic, it runs with sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu but give me an error : parted: invalid token: linux-swap(new)

Upgrading Python to 2.6.4~rc2-0ubuntu1 don't fix the error.

After upgrade Python, do a reinstallation to add missing packages from karmic.

Same error as in Bug description.

Any idea?