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 bug-parted@gnu.org > > 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 -- Petr Uzel IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode
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