On Thursday, April 5, 2012, Petr Uzel wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 07:32:51AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> clive.rothery wrote:
> > When running partprobe on SLES , the following error occurs.
> > As the subject says SLES 11 SP2, with a G6 server. The disks are on a cciss
> > controller.
> >
> > Firmware version
> >
> > Current Firmware: 2.05 12/16/2010
> >
> > This is the message reported after running a fdsik then partprobe
> >
> > WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource
> > busy.
> > The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at
> > the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)
> > Syncing disks.
> >
> > # partprobe
> > A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of parted http://
> > www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information of what could be
> > useful for bug submitting! Please email a bug report to address@hidden
> > containing at least the version (2.3) and the following message: Unable to
> > determine the size and length of /dev/cciss/c0d0_part1.
This is the second time I see this problem with cciss drives in
SLES11-sp2. I suspect that under some circumstances, the cciss driver
returns en error for HDIO_GETGEO ioctl; I couldn't reproduce it yet,
though.
> Thanks for the report.
> That looks like a problem that has been fixed in newer releases.
> Can you try using a newer version? The latest is 3.1.
And it would be helpful if you could also file a bugreport
at bugzilla.novell.com. Thanks.
Petr
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