Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 710882
parted in rawhide fails with: parted: arch/linux.c:2800: linux_disk_commit: Assertion `_have_blkpg ()' failed.
Last modified: 2011-06-29 10:55:10 EDT
Description of problem: When running parted in Rawhide from inside a VM, I see this assertion. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): parted-2.4-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. parted -s -- /dev/vda mklabel msdos Actual results: parted: arch/linux.c:2800: linux_disk_commit: Assertion `_have_blkpg ()' failed. Expected results: Creates label. Additional info: It seems to be related to this patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2010-11/msg00019.html My email machine is switched off at the moment, but when I get it back I'll send an email to the parted mailing list about it. Build log that failed: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3111513&name=build.log
Just had a look at the code in _have_blkpg, and I wonder if this has something to do with the Linux kernel version being 3.0?
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3111513&name=root.log in case you want to see the version number of Linux kernel and other packages installed while parted was running.
(In reply to comment #1) > Just had a look at the code in _have_blkpg, and I wonder > if this has something to do with the Linux kernel version > being 3.0? Looks like parted is expecting the utsname release string to contain 3 dotted numbers. But in the new kernel that string is "3.0".
Thanks for the report. I've posted a patch: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/3529/focus=3530 The next kernel RPM should use 3.0.x, so very few users will encounter this problem with parted.
Since I don't have a Rawhide machine to test this on and the patch *looks* good to me, I pushed it to Rawhide. I will try and build libguestfs against it, to see if it fixes the problem.
I tested Jim's original patch and it fixed the problem. Jim has now pushed a modified version of the patch upstream. Therefore I am closing this bug.
This bug has reappeared in parted-3.0-1.fc16.
Here is the error: parted -s -- /dev/vda mklabel msdos parted: arch/linux.c:2805: linux_disk_commit: Assertion `_have_blkpg ()' failed.
I pushed a fix in parted-3.0-2.fc16, and am rebuilding libguestfs against this. parted binary appears to run without error now.