Bug 31489

Summary:	gdisk UUID warnings/errors
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Aurelian R <arusanu>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	gdisk-1.0.9-1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Aurelian R 2023-02-01 16:30:57 CET

Description of problem:
gdisk-1.0.9-1.mga generates warnings of being unable generate a proper UUID.
Looking for a solution, found this closed Fedora bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082857#c2
which definitely solves it for me, i.e no warnings after patch and successfully converting the disk to GPT.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdisk-1.0.9-1.mga

How reproducible:
always for my test case.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Run gdisk to convert a MBR disk to a GPT one.

# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.9

Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present

***************************************************************
Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format
in memory. THIS OPERATION IS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE! Exit by
typing 'q' if you don't want to convert your MBR partitions
to GPT format!
***************************************************************

Warning! Unable to generate a proper UUID! Creating an improper one as a last
resort! Windows 7 may crash if you save this partition table!
Warning! Unable to generate a proper UUID! Creating an improper one as a last
resort! Windows 7 may crash if you save this partition table!
Warning! Unable to generate a proper UUID! Creating an improper one as a last
resort! Windows 7 may crash if you save this partition table!
Warning! Unable to generate a proper UUID! Creating an improper one as a last
resort! Windows 7 may crash if you save this partition table!
Warning! Unable to generate a proper UUID! Creating an improper one as a last
resort! Windows 7 may crash if you save this partition table!
Warning! Unable to generate a proper UUID! Creating an improper one as a last
resort! Windows 7 may crash if you save this partition table!
Warning! Unable to generate a proper UUID! Creating an improper one as a last
resort! Windows 7 may crash if you save this partition table!

Command (? for help): v

No problems found. 25197 free sectors (12.3 MiB) available in 7
segments, the largest of which is 10240 (5.0 MiB) in size.

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2023-02-04 22:32:46 CET

Assigning to all packagers collectively, since there is no registered maintainer for this package

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2023-02-18 12:10:48 CET

Fixed with gdisk-1.0.9-2.mga9.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => jani.valimaa
Resolution: (none) => FIXED