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Title: Autopkgtest failure on latest version of initramfs-tools - lack of partprobe Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in initramfs-tools source package in Focal: In Progress Status in initramfs-tools source package in Groovy: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] * Currently the initramfs-tools autopkgtest fails for at least AMD64, with the following signature: "mount: /tmp/autopkgtest.K1r92h/build.zdS/src/mnt: special device /dev/loop0p1 does not exist." * The reason for that is the test trying immediately to use that partition on the loop device, but kernel may not have a partition re- read ioctl issued, so the test may fail as observing a nonexistent partition. * The fix proposed here is just to manually run "partprobe" before using the new to-be-discovered loop partition in the net autopkgtest. [Test Case] * Run the autopkgtest suite in the initramfs-tools package and observe the failure aforementioned. [Regression Potential] * Extremely low potential, we are just introducing a partition re-read/probe operation during autopkgtest phase, in order to keep the partition table of loop devices consistent before the test uses it. * The only potential issue I see with that is if for some reason we don't have partprobe in the autopkgtest environment, but that shouldn't happen since parted package is on ubuntu-standard. * Notice that this test is not executed in Debian CI given that CI has no support for VMs, and this test requires that. [See the Rectification below] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1893675/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
