Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 138824
system-config-lvm fails around editing fstab
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:14 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: system-config-lvm fails to create a logical volume and produces a python error: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.mainloop is deprecated, use gtk.main instead self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-lvm/InputController.py", line 654, in on_ok_new_lv_button new_lv_command_set[NEW_FSTAB_ARG] = FSTAB_entry NameError: global name 'NEW_FSTAB_ARG' is not defined There's also a relatively minor layout issue -- see the screenshot I'm going to attach in a minute. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-lvm-0.9.3-1.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. (See attached screenshot) 2. Click on the OK button. 3. Actual Results: No logical volume created. Expected Results: A logical volume to be created and an entry written to /etc/fstab Additional info: I did think that perhaps it was attempting to create a very small logical volume (8Mb, I actually meant 8Gb) but when I repeated the exercise with a properly sized logical volume it still failed. It wasn't until I unchecked the "Check here if you wold like an entry to be made in /etc/fstab" box that I could create the logical volume. Since the most tedious part (for me) of creating a new logical volume is editing /etc/fstab this does rather tend to render the tool less than useful :-)
Created attachment 106496 [details] Screenshot of LVM creation dialog box
The automatic creation of an fstab entry feature is being pulled for the initial release and has been put in feature tracker for U1.
That's a shame -- it's the one feature I liked (being a bit of a veteran of the lvm command line).
Just to let you know, it will not be lost, and if it can be squeezed in it might make it in the initial release yet. There is just a dwindling amount of time to insure it is adequately tested -- I think any part of an application that writes to an important /etc file that is read on startup had better work with no flaws.