Thanks for the feedback, I will do that as could be good warning for others upgrading.
Clive rothery 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 > bug-parted@gnu.org <javascript:;> > > > 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 >
