Package: gparted Version: 0.4.5-2 Severity: important
Hello, I've recently been hit by #533848 and #534274, and realized that dmraid was installed as it's recommended by gparted. On my system, I use mdadm to create soft raid devices and as forementioned bugreports show, mdadm and dmraid don't play nice together. I think that even if dmraid can be useful for gparted, it should only be installed explicitly. Furthermore, not well documented users may not be capable to debug such situations (I had to debug initramfs). Severity important might be considered as excessive but I do think that the problem that it may cause is really really annoying and grave (you can loose you raid). A user might be really clueless about why his system doesn't boot anymore. Cheers, -- Mehdi Dogguy -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gparted depends on: ii gksu 2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su ii hal 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii libatk1.0-0 1.26.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcairomm-1 1.8.0-1 C++ wrappers for Cairo (shared lib ii libfontconfi 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-4.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-5 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2. 2.20.0-1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4 1:2.16.0-2 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared ii libpango1.0- 1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpangomm-1 2.24.0-2 C++ Wrapper for pango (shared libr ii libparted1.8 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libsigc++-2. 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libuuid1 1.41.3-1 universally unique id library Versions of packages gparted recommends: pn dmraid <none> (no description available) ii dmsetup 2:1.02.30-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii kpartx 0.4.8-15 create device mappings for partiti ii yelp 2.26.0-1 Help browser for GNOME Versions of packages gparted suggests: ii dosfstools 3.0.3-1 utilities for making and checking pn jfsutils <none> (no description available) pn ntfsprogs <none> (no description available) pn reiser4progs <none> (no description available) pn reiserfsprogs <none> (no description available) pn xfsprogs <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
