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bug#46630: GNU Parted bug: Unable to determine the dm type of /dev/mappe
From: |
Parke |
Subject: |
bug#46630: GNU Parted bug: Unable to determine the dm type of /dev/mapper/name |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:54:12 -0800 |
Fyi...
I get the following error when I run "partprobe /dev/mapper/name" as
non-root on Ubuntu 20.04.
$ partprobe /dev/mapper/name
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: Permission denied
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.167 (2019-11-30) and kernel driver
(unknown version).
A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of
parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more
information of what could be useful for bug submitting! Please email
a bug report to bug-parted@gnu.org containing at least the version
(3.3) and the following message: Unable to determine the dm type of
/dev/mapper/name.
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I did not expect partprobe to work as non-root. But I did expect a
terse(r) error message.
For example, the following error message is expectedly terse.
$ partprobe /dev/sdf
Error: Error opening /dev/sdf: Permission denied
- bug#46630: GNU Parted bug: Unable to determine the dm type of /dev/mapper/name,
Parke <=