why did this appliance build fail in koji?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 12 October 2012 17:41, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 03:07:04PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> >> Initializing partition table for /dev/loop0 with msdos layout
>> >> Unable to create appliance : Failed mount disks : Error writing partition table on /dev/loop0
>> >> Losetup remove /dev/loop0
>> This is all it logs on the builder.
>
> Hmmmm. Looks like:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525900
>
>
> Except that was fixed by a patch to parted three years ago.
>
> (Hmmm; is the builder running on RHEL5? But that doesn't explain why it
> would suddenly stop.)

All systems are running RHEL6 except one app server.Sorry I can't help
more but this doesn't seem to be from any RPM I can find in EPEL so is
probably something embedded now in some other code.

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