gparted doesn't see raid /dev/mapper devices in Intrepid Alpha 5 installation

Bug #271796 reported by kevpatts@gmail.com
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GParted
Invalid
Medium
gparted (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson
Intrepid
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

When I load up the live CD, enable all standard repositories run:
sudo apt-get install dmraid
sudo modprobe dm-mod
sudo dmraid -ay
sudo dmraid -r

I can then mount my drives using something like:
sudo mkdir /media/Windows
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/mapper/nvidia_ebgeeceg1 /media/Windows

just as I could with the Hardy installation. In Hardy gparted could see these RAID 0 partitions but in Intrepid the partition editor doesn't even start if using the installation utility and if I fire up gparted directly, it just shows /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc.

I've updated to the latest libparted1.8.9 also to no avail. I've attached partman logging from /var/log/syslog that seems to continually cycle since the first attempt to install. At the end of dmesg I see:
[ 242.672009] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[ 242.673782] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.14.0-ioctl (2008-04-23) initialised: <email address hidden>
[ 324.397426] JFS: nTxBlock = 8006, nTxLock = 64052
[ 324.710688] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
[ 324.715008] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
[ 324.901007] program parted_devices is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
[ 1701.842819] program parted_devices is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO

I.e. I can't install Intrepid on my computer cause I use RAID 0, whereas I could install Gutsy and Hardy.

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kevpatts@gmail.com (kevpatts+launchpad) wrote :
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Part of this bug is related to bug 226187.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in gparted:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Note that the installer on the live CD explicitly doesn't support RAID yet, although it's on the roadmap. However, you clearly managed to work around this somehow, and we should certainly fix gparted. Working on it.

Changed in gparted:
assignee: nobody → kamion
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gparted - 0.3.8-1ubuntu2

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gparted (0.3.8-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Discover /dev/mapper/* devices again (LP: #271796).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:53:48 +0100

Changed in gparted:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in gparted:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gparted:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gparted:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in gparted:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Curtis Gedak (gedakc) wrote :

Initial support for /dev/mapper dmraid devices has been developed for GParted.

If you are able to help out with testing, please read the following GParted forum post:
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=13264

Changed in gparted:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in gparted:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Invalid → Unknown
Changed in gparted:
status: Unknown → Invalid
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