In old version of parted like parted-2.1-25, error message is shown in stdout when printing a disk info without disk label. Error: /dev/sda: unrecognised disk label This line has been moved to stderr in newer version of parted. So we should check both stdout and stderr when locating this message. This should fix bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172468 Signed-off-by: Hao Liu <hliu@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c index 4b05e8c..d57b67d 100644 --- a/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c +++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c @@ -370,16 +370,19 @@ virStorageBackendDiskFindLabel(const char* device) }; virCommandPtr cmd = virCommandNew(PARTED); char *output = NULL; + char *error = NULL; int ret = -1; virCommandAddArgSet(cmd, args); virCommandAddEnvString(cmd, "LC_ALL=C"); virCommandSetOutputBuffer(cmd, &output); + virCommandSetErrorBuffer(cmd, &error); /* if parted succeeds we have a valid partition table */ ret = virCommandRun(cmd, NULL); if (ret < 0) { - if (strstr(output, "unrecognised disk label")) + if (strstr(output, "unrecognised disk label") || + strstr(error, "unrecognised disk label")) ret = 1; } -- 1.8.3.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list