Package: parted Architecture: i386 Version: 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 Severity: grave Tags: patch
I was exposed to this bug while trying to do a second install of Debian into an LDOM, but its not the only way to trigger it... Parted currently has a bug where if you try to install to more than one disk at once (2 parallel installs), or on LDOM you try to install more than one LDOM which has a physical disk as a backing device, parted will trash the disk label, rendering the disk unusable until you go and relabel it with the 'format' command in solaris. Ubuntu got around this by applying a patch (written by David S. Miller and Fabio M. Di Nitto who happen to do a lot of work on the sparc Linux port). This applies cleanly against the current Lenny source package for parted (which means that the udeb can be rebuilt and installs will be fixed. From the patch description: ## sparc-new-label.dpatch by David S. Miller and ## Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbi...@ubuntu.com> ## ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch. ## DP: Fix sparc disk label generation. This is required for LDOM and ## DP: parallel installations with Solaris 10. I've attached this as it applies cleanly so there's little maintainer work (hopefully). I've set the severity to grave as it causes data loss on the disk you're installing on (if youre already using some partitions on that disk for something else). It also blocks install if its the second disk you've installed Debian on (feel free to correct me!). Thanks, Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
