An action file is always needed with polkit to describe the privileged
actions that are available to the subject (client program). For GParted
the only available action is to run the gparted shell script as root.
Note that the polkit action file will be installed into location
$(prefix)/share/polkit-1/actions. This is required by the GNU Coding
Standards [1] and to prevent 'make distcheck' from failing [2]. However
polkit only uses /usr/share/polkit-1/actions for it's action files [3].
This dilemma was discussed in this Bugzilla bug 776437 and on the
general Automake discussion email list [4]. The solution is to simply
document in the README file that a manual additional installation step
may be required.
The action file is marked as translatable with the underscore (_) of the
_description and _message tags identifying the string to be translated.
Use of INTLTOOL_POLICY_RULE in Makefile.am to merge translations into
the polkit action file necessitates increasing the minimum version of
intltool to 0.36.0 where it was first introduced in intltool.m4. This
will prevent GParted building on RedHat/CentOS 5 which only has intltool
0.35.0. But that doesn't matter because RedHat/CentOS 5 reached end of
life on 31st March 2017.
[1] GNU Coding Standards, 7.2.5 Variables for Installation Directories
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables
[2] Automake Manual, 27.10 Installing to Hard-Coded Locations
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths
"My package needs to populate the installation directory of another
package at install-time. I can easily compute that installation
directory in configure, but if I install files therein,
'make distcheck' fails. How else should I do?"
[3] polkit(8), Declaring Actions
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html#polkit-declaring-actions
"A mechanism need to declare a set of actions in order to use
polkit. Actions correspond to operations that clients can request
the mechanism to carry out and are defined in XML files that the
mechanism installs into the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions directory."
[4] Not installing to hard-coded locations vs polkit's fixed location
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2017-08/msg00015.html
Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
Add support for detecting UDF file systems and formatting hard disks
with revision 2.01 UDF file systems using udftools. Formatting optical
disks or any other media types is not supported yet. Changing label or
UUID after formatting is not supported as the tools do not yet exist.
Bug 784533 - Add support for UDF file system
As the source code is managed in GIT and there is a .gitignore file in
the top level directory specifying file names to exclude from version
control, then the old per-directory .cvsignore files for CVS are
redundant.
Add the only missing and applicable entry from src/.cvsignore of '.libs'
to .gitignore and remove all the .cvsignore files.
Running 'make check' is failing, reporting that 2 of the Google Test
files need to be translated.
$ make check
...
Making check in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/centos/programming/c/gparted/po'
rm -f missing notexist
srcdir=. /usr/bin/intltool-update -m
The following files contain translations and are currently not in use. Please
consider adding these to the POTFILES.in file, located in the po/ directory.
lib/gtest/include/gtest/internal/gtest-filepath.h
lib/gtest/src/gtest.cc
If some of these files are left out on purpose then please add them to
POTFILES.skip instead of POTFILES.in. A file 'missing' containing this list
of left out files has been written in the current directory.
Please report to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gparted
if [ -r missing -o -r notexist ]; then \
exit 1; \
fi
make[1]: *** [check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/centos/programming/c/gparted/po'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
'make check' is failing
This is not true, the files do not contain translatable strings. This
is a match for known intltool bug:
False positives from intltool-update -m
https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/545862
Fix by adding the problem file names into POTFILES.skip.
Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
The command 'make distcheck' runs a build in dist directory subdirs
and then runs intltool -m which in turn complains about translations
in a built file:
The following files contain translations and are currently not in
use. Please consider adding these to the POTFILES.in file, located
in the po/ directory.
sub/gparted.desktop.in
See also upstream intltool issue bug report:
intltool confused by separate build-dir
https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1117944
Bug 778628 - Work around automake-1.15 & intltool complaining about
translations in build dir
Files were named Block_Copy and the class was named block_copy. Change
to the primary naming convention of CamelCase class name and matching
file names.
Also make CopyBlocks::copy_block() a private method as it is only used
internally within the class.
Bug 775932 - Refactor mostly applying of operations
The GParted_Core::mount_info and GParted_Core::fstab_info maps and the
methods that manipulate them are self-contained. Therefore move them to
a separate Mount_Info module and reduce the size of the monster
GParted_Core slightly.
In some cases creating an LVM2 Physical Volume on top of a DMRaid array
reports no usage information and this partition warning:
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for lvm2
pv file system support: lvm2.
For example on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (with GParted built with
--enable-libparted-dmraid) create an LVM2 PV in a DMRaid array
partition. GParted uses this command:
# lvm pvcreate -M 2 /dev/mapper/isw_bacdehijbd_MyArray0p2
But LVM reports the PV having a different name:
# lvm pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/disk/by-id/dm-name-isw_bacdehijbd_MyArray0p2 lvm2 a-- 1.00g 1.00g
This alternate name is loaded into the LVM2_PV_Info module cache. Hence
when GParted queries partition /dev/mapper/isw_bacdehijbd_MyArray0p2 it
has no PV information against that name and reports unknown usage.
However they are actually the same block special device; major 252,
minor 2:
# ls -l /dev/mapper/isw_bacdehijbd_MyArray0p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 2 Jul 2 11:09 /dev/mapper/isw_bacdehijbd_MyArray0p2
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/dm-name-isw_bacdehijbd_MyArray0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 2 11:09 /dev/disk/by-id/dm-name-isw_bacdehijbd_MyArray0p2 -> ../../dm-2
# ls -l /dev/dm-2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 2 Jul 2 11:09 /dev/dm-2
To determine if two names refer to the same block special device their
major, minor numbers need to be compared, instead of string comparing
their names.
Implement class BlockSpecial which encapsulates the name and major,
minor numbers for a block special device. Also performs comparison as
needed. See bug 767842 comments 4 and 5 for further investigation and
decision for choosing to implement a class.
Replace name strings in the LVM2_PV_Info module with BlockSpecial
objects performing correct block special device comparison.
Bug 767842 - File system usage missing when tools report alternate block
device names
Write a generic progress bar class. Has the following features:
* Has separate progress and target numbers, rather than a single
completion fraction, to enable the the next feature.
* Optionally generates text reporting the amount of data copied using
the progress and target numbers like this:
"1.00 MiB of 16.00 MiB copied"
* After running for 5 seconds, also add estimated remaining time.
(Waits to allow the data copying rate to settle down a little before
estimating the remaining time). Looks like this:
"1.00 MiB of 16.00 MiB copied (00:01:59) remaining)"
The ProgressBar class is not driving the visual progress bar yet. It
has just been added into the internal block copy algorithm and generates
debug messages showing the progress bar is operating correctly.
Debugging looks like this:
DEBUG: ProgressBar::start(target=2.0636e+09, text_mode=PROGRESSBAR_TEXT_COPY_BYTES)
DEBUG: ProgressBar::update(progress=1.30023e+08) m_fraction=0.0630081 m_text="124.00 MiB of 1.92 GiB copied"
DEBUG: ProgressBar::update(progress=2.67387e+08) m_fraction=0.129573 m_text="255.00 MiB of 1.92 GiB copied"
DEBUG: ProgressBar::update(progress=4.0475e+08) m_fraction=0.196138 m_text="386.00 MiB of 1.92 GiB copied"
...
DEBUG: ProgressBar::update(progress=1.13351e+09) m_fraction=0.549289 m_text="1.06 GiB of 1.92 GiB copied (00:00:04 remaining)"
DEBUG: ProgressBar::update(progress=1.26249e+09) m_fraction=0.611789 m_text="1.18 GiB of 1.92 GiB copied (00:00:04 remaining)"
DEBUG: ProgressBar::update(progress=1.39041e+09) m_fraction=0.67378 m_text="1.29 GiB of 1.92 GiB copied (00:00:03 remaining)"
...
DEBUG: ProgressBar::update(progress=1.97552e+09) m_fraction=0.957317 m_text="1.84 GiB of 1.92 GiB copied (00:00:00 remaining)"
DEBUG: ProgressBar::update(progress=2.0636e+09) m_fraction=1 m_text="1.92 GiB of 1.92 GiB copied"
DEBUG: ProgressBar::stop()
Bug 760709 - Add progress bars to XFS and EXT2/3/4 file system specific
copy methods
Absolute minimum implementation of a PartitionLUKS class which can be
constructed, polymorphically copied and destroyed. Contains an
"encrypted" member of type Partition to represent the encrypted file
system within the LUKS format.
Create PartitionLUKS objects instead of base Partition objects when a
LUKS formatted partition is found. Only the base Partition object
member values have been populated, and the "encrypted" member remains
blank at this point.
Bug 760080 - Implement read-only LUKS support
Provide a minimal implementation of a luks file system class which only
does busy detection.
NOTE:
For now, read-only LUKS support, a LUKS partition will be busy when a
dm-crypt mapping exists. Later when read-write LUKS support is added
GParted will need to look at the busy status of the encrypted file
system within the open LUKS partition and map LUKS partition busy status
to encryption being open or closed.
Bug 760080 - Implement read-only LUKS support
Load basic details of active Device-mapper encryption mappings from the
kernel. Use dmsetup active targets.
# cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb5
# cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb6
# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb6 sdb6_crypt
# ls -l /dev/mapper/sdb6_crypt /dev/dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Nov 15 09:03 /dev/mapper/sdb6_crypt -> ../dm-0
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 253, 0 Nov 15 09:03 /dev/dm-0
# ls -l /dev/sdb6
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 22 Nov 15 09:02 /dev/sdb6
# dmsetup table --target crypt
sdb6_crypt: 0 1044480 crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0 8:22 4096
So far just load the mapping name and underlying block device reference
(path or major, minor pair).
Note that all supported kernels appear to report the underlying block
device as major, minor pair in the dmsetup output. Underlying block
device paths are added to the cache when found during a search to avoid
stat(2) call on subsequent searches for the same path.
Prints debugging to show results, like this:
# ./gpartedbin
======================
libparted : 2.4
======================
DEBUG: /dev/sdb5: LUKS closed
DEBUG: /dev/sdb6: LUKS open mapping /dev/mapper/sdb6_crypt
Bug 760080 - Implement read-only LUKS support
The PartitionVector class is now internally using pointers to Partition
objects and taking on management of their lifetimes. It therefore has
to implement the Big 3: destructor, copy constructor and copy assignment
operator [1][2]. This is because the implicitly-defined copy
constructor and assignment operator perform memberwise "shallow copying"
and the destructor does nothing. This not correct for classes which
contain non-class types such as raw pointers.
The semantics of the interface still copies each Partition object into
the PartitionVector when they are added with push_back() and insert().
Note that a PartitionVector object is explicitly copy assigned in
Win_GParted::Refresh_Visual(). They are also implicitly copied when
(1) the implementing vector is resized larger to allow it to hold more
pointers to Partition objects than it previously had capacity for; and
(2) a Partition object is copied including the logicals PartitionVector
member.
[1] The rule of three/five/zero
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/rule_of_three
[2] Rule of Three
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_%28C%2B%2B_programming%29
Bug 759726 - Implement Partition object polymorphism
The Canadian English translation po file incorrectly changed the
following string with a parameter from %1 to %2:
msgid "old end: %1"
msgstr "old end: %2"
The error resulted in a missing "old end:" numerical value in the
gparted details log.
This error was introduced back in 2011-09-06 with the following
commit:
06eeaafc8c
Updated Canadian English translation.
Bug 756878 - GParted - Fix missing "old end" value in detail log of
en_CA translation
Detection of Linux SWRaid members currently fails in a number of cases:
1) Arrays which use metadata type 0.90 or 1.0 store the super block at
the end of the partition. So file system signatures in at least
linear and mirrored arrays occur at the same offsets in the
underlying partitions. As libparted only recognises file systems
this is what is detected, rather than an SWRaid member.
# mdadm -E -s -v
ARRAY /dev/md/1 level=raid1 metadata=1.0 num-devices=2 UUID=15224a42:c25bbcd9:15db6000:4e5fe53a name=chimney:1
devices=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1
...
# wipefs /dev/sda1
offset type
----------------------------------------------------------------
0x438 ext4 [filesystem]
LABEL: chimney-boot
UUID: 10ab5f7d-7d8a-4171-8b6a-5e973b402501
0x1fffe000 linux_raid_member [raid]
LABEL: chimney:1
UUID: 15224a42-c25b-bcd9-15db-60004e5fe53a
# parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 34.4GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 538MB 537MB primary ext4 boot, raid
...
2) Again with metadata type 0.90 or 1.0 arrays blkid may report the
contained file system instead of an SWRaid member. Have a single
example of this configuration with a mirrored array containing the
/boot file system. Blkid reports one member as ext4 and the other as
SWRaid!
# blkid | egrep 'sd[ab]1'
/dev/sda1: UUID="10ab5f7d-7d8a-4171-8b6a-5e973b402501" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="chimney-boot"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="15224a42-c25b-bcd9-15db-60004e5fe53a" UUID_SUB="0a095e45-9360-1b17-0ad1-1fe369e22b98" LABEL="chimney:1" TYPE="linux_raid_member"
Bypassing the blkid cache gets the correct result.
# blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: UUID="15224a42-c25b-bcd9-15db-60004e5fe53a" UUID_SUB="d0460f90-d11a-e80a-ee1c-3d104dae7e5d" LABEL="chimney:1" TYPE="linux_raid_member"
However this can't be used because if a user has a floppy configured
in the BIOS but no floppy attached, GParted will wait for minutes as
the kernel tries to access non-existent hardware on behalf of the
blkid query. See commit:
18f863151c
Fix long scan problem when BIOS floppy setting incorrect
3) Old versions of blkid don't recognise SWRaid members at all so always
report the file system when found. Occurs with blkid v1.0 on
RedHat / CentOS 5.
The only way I can see how to fix all these cases is to use the mdadm
command to query the configured arrays. Then use this information for
first choice when detecting partition content, making the order: SWRaid
members, libparted, blkid and internal.
GParted shell wrapper already creates temporary blank udev rules to
prevent Linux Software RAID arrays being automatically started when
GParted refreshes its device information[1]. However an administrator
could manually stop or start arrays or change their configuration
between refreshes so GParted must load this information every refresh.
On my desktop with 4 internal hard drives and 3 testing Linux Software
RAID arrays, running mdadm adds between 0.20 and 0.30 seconds to the
device refresh time.
[1] a255abf343
Prevent GParted starting stopped Linux Software RAID arrays (#709640)
Bug 756829 - SWRaid member detection enhancements
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