Linaro Image Tools

  1. Bug #717129
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 717129

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote : Re: [Bug 717129] Re: linaro-media-create crashes during media setup/partitioning

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> In the case of the race between parted/sfdisk, I think Loïc managed to
> reproduce it reliably so there seems to be an inherent race there, but
> maybe there's a way to have the changes done by parted flushed before we
> run sfdisk? If not, I'd expect a very short sleep to be enough.

 Well, my analysis might be incorrect, but my understanding of the issue
 is that on some combinations of (system, USB SD adapater, SD card) you
 can't access your SD card anymore after "parted mklabel msdos"; I don't
 think the fact we're calling sfdisk does anything, it just fails
 "forever". But perhaps other tools than parted wouldn't cause this,
 not sure. I actually don't have a way to reproduce this, but Shawn Guo
 does.

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Loïc Minier