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Please update GParted from 0.19.1 to the latest, 0.31.0, in EL6 and EPEL7. This is mostly about getting current code in the hands of the users with incremental improvements. The GParted UI has not changed and there are no incompatible changes. Notable improvements: * Unpartitioned drive read-write support * GPT partition naming * Recognise NVME devices * Partial LUKS read-write support (No support for creating, opening, closing or formatting LUKS encrypted volumes. However file systems inside open LUKS volumes can be copied, resized and manipulated and closed LUKS volumes can be moved). * Fix a number of rare crashes Blkid was upgraded to a mandatory requrement. I believe that this is inline with the EPEL policy which allows upstream upgrades of middle version numbers when there are no incompatibilities. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#A_little_bit_bigger_minor_version_updates Thanks, Mike Fleetwood (GParted Developer)
coming up! :)
gparted-0.31.0-4.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b0d388c572
Just using the same .spec file from Fedora 27/28 on EPEL 7 has some issues because of the differences between the OSs. (I assumed you would start from the existing EPEL 7 .spec file and update as required). First issue I encountered is that GParted fails to launch from the GParted menu icon.
Created attachment 1457937 [details] gparted launched from menu I saw you -1 karma on bodhi and tried to launch gparted from my centos install. I cannot reproduce this at all. I have (1) upgrading from 0.19 (currently in epel), (2) installing gparted afresh. I have done both these in a new centos install and my current centos vm. Additionally, I have launched from command line and from menu - both under xfce and GNOME. I am able to luanch gparted in all these situations.
can you launch from the terminal and see if some error shows up? I need more information on how to reproduce this.
Sorry about the lack of details. I had a second PolKit action file named /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.local.policy which was for /usr/local/bin/gparted in addition to the one installed by the latest gparted-0.31.0-4.el7 package. This appeared to be confusing PolKit resulting in the allow_gui setting not working, so the DISPLAY environment variable was not being carried through pkexec, hence gparted was failing with: (gpartedbin:9622): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Removed that second PolKit action file and I can now run GParted from the GUI menu and the command line.
gparted-0.31.0-4.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b0d388c572
I have looked at the .spec file and see a couple of issues: * configure uses --enable-online-resize flag Normally this flag shouldn't be used because the configure script will automatically set this when (lib)parted >= 3.2 is found, which includes online resize support. However bug #1423357 [1] back ported the online resize change [2] into parted 3.1-29.el7 [3]. I specifically install previous parted-3.1-28 and ran new gparted-0.31.0-4. It allows online resize to be requested but fails when implemented. Therefore gparted package must depend on parted >= 3.1-29. Suggest a comment in the .spec file why --enable-online-resize flag can be used. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1423357 [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=f09ca967a0bc443b869a6fad5b5ffe8e95c3fe9a [3] parted changelog 2017-08-10 - Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 3.1-29 - Add support for NVMe devices Resolves: rhbz#1316239 - Backport partition resize command Resolves: rhbz#1423357 * configure uses --enable-xhost-root flag This is intended as a workaround for running GParted on Wayland. It uses xhost to grant root access to the users X11 display session. This is unnecessary on EPEL which sets up XAUTHORITY environment variable and xauth file. Should remove --enable-xhost-root configure flag. Otherwise GParted works well and the LVM PV shrinking bug is fixed.
Mike, thanks for the comments. I have edited the EPEL7 update. please test it.
gparted-0.31.0-4.el7.1 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b0d388c572
gparted-0.31.0-4.el7.1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b0d388c572
All looks good now. * Confirmed that upgrading to gparted-0.31.0-4.el7.1 upgrades to parted-3.1-29.el7 as a dependency. * Confirmed that gparted shell wrapper no longer unnecessarily uses xhost to add root as an X display authorised user. - Can still run GParted from the GUI menu. - Can still run GParted from the command line both as normal user and root.
I have just submitted the following pull request: * Update to GParted 0.31.0 in EL6 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gparted/pull-request/2 Tested and confirmed GParted launches and works as expected from the desktop menu item and from the command line as normal user and root. Thanks, Mike
gparted-0.31.0-4.el7.1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Can the above pull request for GParted 0.31.0 in EL6 be reviewed please. Thanks, Mike
Sorry for the delay. I will do this in the coming day or two.
gparted-0.31.0-1.el6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-76e0c098f5
gparted-0.31.0-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-76e0c098f5
gparted-0.31.0-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.