palimpsest: creating xfs partition fails

Bug #451972 reported by mokabar
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
devicekit-disks (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

when creating an xfs partition, palimpsest fails with:

Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: cannot spawn 'mkfs.xfs -L "hd1500" /dev/sda': Failed to execute child process "mkfs.xfs" (No such file or directory)

the reason is, that xfsprogs is not installed. i'd suggest to add this package to the dependencies

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 15 10:21:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0+git20091012-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31.2 x86_64

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mokabar (tim-klingt) wrote :
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mokabar (tim-klingt) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your work there

Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Not sure if that should be a Depends, Recommends or Suggests seems better there... Martin what do you think?

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

It should be a suggests of devicekit-disks IMHO.

affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) → devicekit-disks (Ubuntu)
Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

As a matter of fact, it is already. So yes, if you need XFS you need to install xfsprogs.

Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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