On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:54:12PM -0800, Parke wrote: > Fyi... > > I get the following error when I run "partprobe /dev/mapper/name" as > non-root on Ubuntu 20.04. > > $ partprobe /dev/mapper/name > /dev/mapper/control: open failed: Permission denied > Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. > Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.167 (2019-11-30) and kernel driver > (unknown version). > 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 > (3.3) and the following message: Unable to determine the dm type of > /dev/mapper/name. > > ---- > > I did not expect partprobe to work as non-root. But I did expect a > terse(r) error message. > > For example, the following error message is expectedly terse. > > $ partprobe /dev/sdf > Error: Error opening /dev/sdf: Permission denied
The first line says that, the rest provides additional context what can sometimes be useful. Brian -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
