Bug 890143

Summary: Kde partitionmanager doesn't work in F18 and higher
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mattia Verga <mattia.verga>
Component: kde-partitionmanagerAssignee: Mattia Verga <mattia.verga>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: gregg, jjr16, mattia.verga, PTrenholme
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Fixed In Version: kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Mattia Verga 2012-12-25 09:41:30 UTC
Kde-partitionmanager doesn't currently work in F18 and higher due to a problem of kdelibs (solid) and udisks2 backend.
See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311408

Comment 1 Gregg Lebovitz 2013-02-10 01:31:45 UTC
Hi, I am confirming this behavior after installing fedora 18 on a new disk. The partition manager is showing mountable partition devices rather than the entire disk device in the devices list.

Rather than seeing

/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc

in the device list, I am seeing

/dev/sda5
/dev/sdb3
/dev/sdc1

where sda5 is a mountable NTFS Partition, sdb3 is a mountable NTFS partiton and sdc2 is an ext4 boot partition.

Hardware is an ACER S3-951-6432 and drives are

sda - SATA SSD
sdb - USB to SATA bridge with Samsung drive
sdb - USB to SATA bridge with Hitachi drive (Hitachi Easy Drive)

Comment 2 Mattia Verga 2013-02-10 10:23:50 UTC
I'm still waiting for upstream kdelibs developers to solve the problem.
For the moment using gparted is the only choice.

Comment 3 Peter Trenholme 2013-06-21 17:35:54 UTC
I just looked at the partitionmanager script in /usr/bin/, and noticed that the test for the hal_lock availability:

HAL_LOCK=`which hal-lock`
PARTITIONMANAGER_BIN=/usr/bin/partitionmanager-bin
RUN_WITHOUT_LOCK=1

if [ "x$HAL_LOCK" != "x" ]; then
        $HAL_LOCK --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage --exclusive --run "$PARTITIONMANAGER_BIN $*" && RUN_WITHOUT_LOCK=0
fi

ASSUMES that "which" returns null when ut is not available. I believe that

HAL_LOCK=`which hal-lock 2>/dev/null`

would be a better choice.

Note: Making that change did not fix the problem reported in this bug report, but I thought it might be related thereto.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-06-23 11:48:07 UTC
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-06-23 11:48:17 UTC
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc18

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-06-23 19:03:05 UTC
Package kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11511/kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-07-03 01:32:41 UTC
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-07-03 01:39:54 UTC
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-11.20130624svn.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.