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Description of problem:

Our cloud images (for openstack/amazon ec2/etc) run the "growpart" command to grow the root partition to fill up available space on the root disk. The "growpart" command relies on "partx" from the "util-linux" package to update the kernel's view of the partition map.

When running partx on a GPT-partitioned image on Amazon (e.g., ami-463f832e), the partx command reports:

   /dev/xvda: error updating partition 2

This appears to have been fixed in upstream commit 84ac311212c06963d616b1b9a40644842f9adabd:

  https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/84ac311212c06963d616b1b9a40644842f9adabd

Because this prevents our cloud images from working properly on Amazon I would like to see this fix backported into our RHEL 7 packages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  util-linux-2.23.2-16.el7.x86_64

To reproduce this problem:

- Boot with a GPT partitioned disk, ideally one that matches our AMI with root on partition 2.

- Run "partx --update 2 /dev/xvda" (replacing "/dev/xvda" with the appropriate block devices).

If partx reports:

   /dev/xvda: error updating partition 2

...then you have reproduced the problem.

Ah.. I have forgot this problem has been already fixed by previous RHEL7.1 util-linux re-spin.

Lars, update to the current errata package util-linux-2.23.2-19.el7.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1149278 ***