On 27 November 2016 at 06:29, bugproxy <[email protected]> wrote:

> ------- Comment From [email protected] 2016-11-27 01:26 EDT-------
> Hi,
>
> at the moment i am forced to bring devices online and make them
> persistent in 2 phases... I am aware of chzdev being able to do both.
> thank you for that.
>
> i understand why LVM is preventing my dasdfmt... that is fine. i missed
> that.
>
> the general case is when i get back  "No such device" although i have
> varied the device online, it is visible in lsdasd and i have used
> udevadm settle.
>
> this behavior was consistent for me. it always failed...
>
> as i mentioned in comment 15, the user i was using was created without a
> specific shell... causing it to use the default shell...
>
>
So does that mean exec calls from dasdfmt that failed becuase the user
account has no (typical) shell specified?
As in, is there something that can be improved in the s390-tools source
code to explicitely use /bin/sh for example to mitigate this?

changing the user to run with bash worked around the issue. so i have my
> workaround...  this solved the problem for me and i am fine with this
> solution.
>
> with that said... you can dig further about 19a in the sosreport... you
> will see that i did brought 19a online (only not using chzdev).
> that should be a valid and supported scenario... i think you should check
> that...
>
>
Horum, I am pondering how can the route cuase be further debuged for this
one. This is still reproducible, after the user has a shell set, right?


> thanks!
>
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> Title:
>   dasdfmt fails after vary online. syslog show strange message "The disk
>   layout of the DASD is not supported"
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Dimitri.

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