[Bug 1220165] Re: Error informing the kernel about modificatons

[Colin Watson]

I was wrong; Phillip identified this correctly as being due to a bug in
avoid-disturbing-partitions.patch in the case where some of the
partitions in the new layout start at the same position as partitions of
the same number in the old layout but extend over parts of the disk
previously occupied by partitions of higher numbers.  He's working on a
patch to reorder the remove/add code to avoid this.

** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

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Title:
  Error informing the kernel about modificatons

Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  When installing the desktop powerpc image, the installer comes up with
  an error message:

  "Error informing the kernel about modifications to partitino /dev/sda3
  - Device or resource busy.  This means Linuxc won't know about any
  changes you made to /dev/sda3 until you reboot - so you shouldn't
  mount it or use it in any way before rebooting."

  I made no changes.  The installer comes up with this error all on its
  own right before the "Where are you?" screen.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.15.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-1.2-powerpc-smp 3.11.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-1-powerpc-smp ppc
  ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: powerpc
  CasperVersion: 1.336
  Date: Tue Sep  3 09:51:27 2013
  InstallCmdLine: ro ramdisk_size=1048576 file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- video=radeonfb:1280x854-32 at 60
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha powerpc (20130902.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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