From 4c229d9449ab5605940bdee28e89166132b1d7e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthijs Kooijman Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:04:31 +0200 Subject: Pass --partscan to losetup Recent versions of Linux, parted or some other bit of software cause partition devices, like /dev/loop0p1 to be created when running parted mkpart. However, these devices are not cleaned up when running losetup -d to remove /dev/loop0 later, so they linger around and confuse mkfs (which refuses to make a filesystem, thinking there are partitions): mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) mkfs.vfat: Partitions or virtual mappings on device '/dev/loop0', not making filesystem (use -I to override) To prevent this behaviour, pass --partscan to losetup when adding a new partition, to clean up any lingering partitions. It seems losetup does not accept --partscan when deleting a loop device, to clean up at that point, but since binary_hdd mounts the partition last, there should not be any lingering partition devices after live-build is done. The --partscan option is available since util-linux 2.21 (released in 2012), so it should be fairly safe to pass it unconditionally. --- debian/changelog | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'debian/changelog') diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 1a91c988d..608b8dc8f 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ live-build (1:20170830) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * Auto-update version strings in manual pages. * Update default value of PREPARER to correct the embedded URL. + * Pass --partscan to losetup to clean up partition devices lingering + from former operations. Closes: #865586 + Thanks to Matthijs Kooijman for the patch. -- Raphaël Hertzog Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:13:39 +0200 -- cgit v1.2.3