[Bug 697046] Re: Unable to create volumes on disk pools as parted support is missing

[Edwin Chiu]

configure is looking for the parted binary, so I think the missing
dependency is probably the parted package...

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 09:50, Serge Hallyn
<697046 at bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> @JamesPage,
>
> exactly which dependency did you add?  'libparted0'?  ('libparted0-dev'
> is already there, but I presume the configure check may be looking for
> something not in the -dev package).
>
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> Title:
>  Unable to create volumes on disk pools as parted support is missing
>
> Status in “libvirt” package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  IMPACT:
>  libvirt is unable to create partitions to support volumes in physical disk
> devices (or logical disk devices).
>
>  TEST CASE (using lvm):
>  Create a new logical volume:
>    lvcreate -n sde -L 500M <vgname>
>  Initialise the volume using fdisk
>    fdisk /dev/mapper/<vgname>-sde (exit using w to initialize partition
> table)
>  Create a new pool using this device (using attached sde.xml)
>    virsh pool-define sde.xml
>    virsh pool-start sde
>  Create a new volume in the pool:
>     virsh vol-create-as --pool sde --name 1 --capacity 100M --allocation
> 100M
>
>   ORIGINAL BUG REPORT:
>
>  Ubuntu 10.10 x64
>  libvirt-bin:
>    Installed: 0.8.3-1ubuntu14
>    Candidate: 0.8.3-1ubuntu14
>
>  Error:
>
>  root at codis:/etc/libvirt/storage# virsh vol-create-as --pool sde --name 1
> --capacity 100M --allocation 100M
>  error: Failed to create vol 1
>  error: internal error ' /dev/sde mkpart --script primary ext2 17408B
> 106928639B' exited with non-zero status 1 and signal 0: libvir: error :
> cannot execute binary : No such file or directory
>
>  Similar error in syslog:
>  Jan  2 23:30:03 codis libvirtd: 23:30:03.221: error : virRunWithHook:857 :
> internal error ' /dev/sde mkpart --script primary 1000341504B 1524629503B'
> exited with non-zero status 1 and signal 0: libvir: error : cannot execute
> binary : No such file or directory#012
>
>  Pool "sde" is a disk pool using GPT format:
>  <pool type='disk'>
>    <name>sde</name>
>    <uuid>5bdde906-722c-981c-128c-bf4496f5c508</uuid>
>    <capacity>0</capacity>
>    <allocation>0</allocation>
>    <available>0</available>
>    <source>
>      <device path='/dev/sde'/>
>      <format type='gpt'/>
>    </source>
>    <target>
>      <path>/dev</path>
>      <permissions>
>        <mode>0700</mode>
>        <owner>-1</owner>
>        <group>-1</group>
>      </permissions>
>    </target>
>  </pool>
>
>  From build log, looks like parted headers are found, but not the binary,
> causing an empty DEFINE in config.h
>  Really this should be handled more gracefully, but that's another
> story....
>
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/libvirt/+builds?build_state=all
>
>  checking for DEVMAPPER... yes
>  checking for parted... no
>  checking parted/parted.h usability... yes
>  checking parted/parted.h presence... yes
>  checking for parted/parted.h... yes
>  checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... yes
>  checking for ped_device_read in -lparted... yes
>
>  Manually rebuilding it locally fixed the problem for me...
>
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Title:
  Unable to create volumes on disk pools as parted support is missing