Hello Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> FYI, I just pushed commit 8c21c64e59d3f4d223d8aeef91f06fdde7de1ab7 which
> updates linux-libre to 4.16.6.  Would you like to see if the problem
> still persists?

It does.

I instrumented the code to see what happens.  Opening /dev/vda works
fine, invoking “parted --version” works, so it’s really just ‘parted’
that hangs when asked to do the real thing (with 0% CPU consumption.)

However, if we strace it as with the patch below, it succeeds.  It
doesn’t seem to be a simple timing issue because adding (sleep 2) before
the parted invocation doesn’t make a difference.

To be continued…

Ludo’.