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! > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Skipper > Bug Screeners, which is a bug assignee. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643527 > > Title: > dasdfmt fails after vary online. syslog show strange message "The disk > layout of the DASD is not supported" > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-z-systems/+bug/1643527/+subscriptions > -- Regards, Dimitri. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643527 Title: dasdfmt fails after vary online. syslog show strange message "The disk layout of the DASD is not supported" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-z-systems/+bug/1643527/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
