Bug 432441
| Summary: | Parted assertion failure when installing to DASD emulated FCP device | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Brad Hinson <bhinson> | ||||||
| Component: | parted | Assignee: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||||
| Version: | 4.6 | CC: | atodorov, jlaska, tao | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | s390x | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2008-0698 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-07-24 19:49:47 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Description
Brad Hinson
2008-02-12 02:02:57 UTC
Created attachment 294617 [details]
Backport relevant changes from parted-1.8
Tested RHEL 4.6 install by copying libparted* from patched RPM to RHupdates/ dir. Install completes successfully without assertion failures. Created attachment 294698 [details]
patched parted for testing
What specific version of parted did you backport from? RHEL 5.1 (parted-1.8.1-12.el5) OK, just making sure. In this case, the patch is usable. FYI... If you had taken it from parted 1.8.7 or later, we'd have a problem. Not sure if you are aware, but starting with parted-1.8.7, I updated the license to GPLv3 or any later version. So all releases starting with 1.8.7 going forward (for now) will be GPLv3+. That poses a problem when hunting for upstream fixes. We cannot take a fix from version 1.8.7 or later and bring it back to RHEL because we introduce a license link incompatibility between anaconda and libparted. RHEL-5's parted is still GPLv2+, so it's ok to backport from that, but be careful when looking at Fedora or even on the FTP site. I had no choice with the licensing change, so we just have to be careful when backporting patches. Nice little 'gotcha', will keep that in mind.. thx This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Fix will be in parted-1.6.19-20.EL and later versions. VERIFIED with the help of bhinson on z12.z900.redhat.com. Tested against RHEL4-U7-re20080611.0 (which includes parted-1.6.19-20.EL). Reproduced the error during RHEL4-U6 installations: Assertion (head_size <= 63) at disk_dos.c:569 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Assertion (head_size <= 63) at disk_dos.c:569 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. The reported error is no longer present. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0698.html |