Hitting this periodically on my test systems. The disk may or may not be capable of the ped_disk_commit_to_dev() call yet. The disk is busy. I don't want to use a Timer thread since we're using PyGTK and we'll get in to all sorts of problems if threads are brought it. The poor man's try loop has been working for me today. --- storage/devices.py | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/storage/devices.py b/storage/devices.py index 305b087..816cf6a 100644 --- a/storage/devices.py +++ b/storage/devices.py @@ -782,7 +782,22 @@ class DiskDevice(StorageDevice): self.setupParents() self.setup() - self.partedDisk.commit() + + # give committing 5 tries, failing that, raise an exception + attempt = 1 + maxTries = 5 + keepTrying = True + + while keepTrying and (attempt <= maxTries): + try: + self.partedDisk.commit() + keepTrying = False + except parted.DiskException as msg: + log.warning(msg) + attempt += 1 + + if keepTrying: + raise DeviceError("cannot commit to disk %s after %d attempts" % (self.name, maxTries,)) def destroy(self): """ Destroy the device. """ -- 1.6.2 _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list