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Bug #471: Issues with Gondwana

Persistence file creation on USB-device failed

Added by Sergey Komkov over 12 years ago. Updated almost 12 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Category:
System
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Description

USB device has 2 fat-formatted partitions. Boot from LiveCD.
Error description is below.

sudo persistence-gui --expert
T.Sonic 840 [4.1 Gb, usb, 2 ????? ????(?)]
/dev/sda2 vfat (3.3 Gb)
/dev/sda1 vfat (700 Mb) [DEBIAN_LIVE]
Samsung SP0411N [40 Gb, ide, 2 ?
?????? ????(?)]
/dev/sda3 ext3 (38 Gb)
/dev/sda2 swap (360 Mb)
/dev/sda1 vfat (730 Mb)
PC Floppy Drive [0 b, platform, 0 ?
?????? ??(?)]

Selected disk: T.Sonic 840 [4.1 Gb, usb, 2 ????? ??(?)]
Selected partition: /dev/sda2 vfat (3.3 Gb) [3.3 Gb]
Free space: 2.2 Gb
Selected mode: mode_root_file
Selected size: 2047 Mb
dd if=/dev/null of=/mnt/sda2/live-rw bs=2G seek=1
mkfs.ext2 -F /mnt/sda2/live-rw
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/persistence-gui", line 1135, in <module>
GUI.select(ExpertMode)
File "/usr/bin/persistence-gui", line 984, in select
SelectedPart.set_persistence_file(SelectedMode, SelectedSize, reset_file=True)
File "/usr/bin/persistence-gui", line 478, in set_persistence_file
Str += commands.getoutput("dd if=/dev/null of=%s bs=%s seek=1" % (FilePath, FileSize))
TypeError: can only concatenate tuple (not "str") to tuple

Actions #1

Updated by Sergey Komkov over 12 years ago

If select file size 1025-1920 mb actual size of live-rw file created is 1024 mb

Actions #2

Updated by Sergey Komkov over 12 years ago

Error reproduced if 1996 and 1995 Mb live-rw size specified (both system/user data saved)

Actions #3

Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago

  • Target version changed from Gondwana update 1 to Gondwana update 2
Actions #4

Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago

  • Parent task set to #471
Actions #5

Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe almost 12 years ago

  • Target version changed from Gondwana update 2 to 2012-11
  • Start date deleted (07/25/2011)
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