np237 ([info]np237) wrote,
@ 2009-10-11 18:59:00
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So what?

So, Waldi filed #545032, arguing the udev rules shipped in devicekit-disks are broken. He even added a conflict in dmsetup because of that. Whenever you ask him about this issue, the only things he answers are:

  • The rules are broken and they need to be removed.
  • The information is already available in other variables.

It would be nice if all of this was true, but:

  • There is no explanation about how and why these rules could actually break anything.
  • The information is not available in other variables, apart from a couple of trivial things. Or maybe it is, but since all that udev crap has absolutely zero documentation, there is no way to know how it is available.

The result: GNOME is currently not installable on a system with LVM. There is no foreseeable possibility to fix that. Great. Thanks.


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Have you tried
(Anonymous)
2009-10-11 06:06 pm UTC (link)
"hi, can you help us and send a patch."

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Re: Have you tried
[info]jasondclinton
2009-10-12 04:56 pm UTC (link)
That's in the bug, message #34; Joss and Michael Biebl are on the same team.

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(Anonymous)
2009-10-12 10:54 am UTC (link)
May be it is the same problem I encounterd with my ubuntu. Some devices used by the LVM aren't symlinked into the disk/by-uuid folder. So booting fails. Anyway for my problem I've found a solution, by modifying the initrd.img by myself. I've documented my problem w/ solution here: http://wiki.goatpr0n.de/blog/2009/07/13.time.to.relax#ubuntu.jaunty.and.two.crpyted.partitions. I just need to replace the uuid with the /dev/sd?? device node.

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Um...
[info]http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/
2009-10-12 02:27 pm UTC (link)
"Our priorities are our users and free software"

The priority for this current issue doesn't seem to come under that heading.

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Re: Um...
[info]jasondclinton
2009-10-12 04:54 pm UTC (link)
No working installable Debian unstable, at the moment, seems like a pretty big "user" problem to me.

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Then debian is not upgradeable ...
(Anonymous)
2009-10-14 07:56 am UTC (link)
If you have a lvm gnome installation, you shouldn't have to update until this issue is solved, I guess..

I want to give thanks to Bastian and Michael because they want both do thing in the best way.

Regards,

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Re: Then debian is not upgradeable ...
(Anonymous)
2009-10-21 07:43 pm UTC (link)
Debian _is_ upgradable!
ATM in Debian _UNSTABLE_ gnome and lvm2 have a conflict due to the devicekit-disks/dmsetup problem.
If you're following Debian Unstable you should be aware of such problems. If you need a stable system, install one.

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Unstable
(Anonymous)
2009-10-15 01:29 pm UTC (link)
C'est pourquoi cette version est dite instable...

-- Olivier - http://olsc.org

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