Bug with SLES11 SP2 on HP G6 server.

[clive.rothery]

When running partprobe on SLES , the following error occurs.
As the subject says SLES 11 SP2,  with a G6 server.  The disks are on a cciss controller.

Firmware version

Current Firmware:

2.05   12/16/2010

This is the message reported after running a fdsik then partprobe


WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at
the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)
Syncing disks.

# partprobe
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 address@hidden containing at least the version (2.3) and the following message:  Unable to determine the size and length of /dev/cciss/c0d0_part1.



Clive Rothery
QA Engineer
www.rorotika.com