Bug 181498

Summary: usage of libblkid in showlabels hangs opening /dev/fd0
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Bill Nottingham 2006-02-14 17:33:45 UTC 
new-kernel-pkg hangs running echo "showlabels" | nash --force --quiet.

This is because libblkid is trying to open the (currently empty) /dev/fd0.

mkinitrd-5.0.23-1

Feel free to move to e2fsprogs.
Comment 1 Peter Jones 2006-02-23 16:22:54 UTC 
Ok, so now it doesn't look at fd*.  But that's not a good general solution --
what should be the rule here?  No "removable" devices?
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-02-23 16:35:02 UTC 
The tongue-in-cheek answer is 'nothing with side effects'.

Removable might be a good criteria, however, I suspect that will eliminate
USB/firewire, which may not be what you want.

You could iterate and short-circuit when you found the requested label, but that
would require a C implementation.

Possibly check the media type? Or is that not available?
Comment 3 Peter Jones 2006-02-27 16:14:36 UTC 
USB hard disks at least don't show up as removable, so I went with that.