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dmraid /dev/mapper/control

I installed dmraid using ./configure / make / make install I cannot remove it. I ran it for other reasons then I should have, long story skipping it.

Now that I just moved my home partition to another HDD, got everything set up with that.

When I tried to remove my old /home using gParted I get an error "could not stat device /dev/mapper/NO RAID disks no such file or directory" it too is preventing me from mounting it and changing that partition into what I want it to be which is just a data storage area.

I have a /dev/mapper/control

Code:

 userx@SlackDaddy & 1.0.0.rc14 >> $ls /dev/mapper/control

/dev/mapper/control

though I do not know a fix for this let alone an easy one.

if I just delete this /dev/mapper/control then what?

this did not work either

Code:

userx@SlackDaddy & 1.0.0.rc14 >> $sudo make uninstall

make: *** No rule to make target 'uninstall'.  Stop.

does anyone know a solution to this issue short of re-installing Slack?

and NO old /home is not mounted in fstab

Code:

root@SlackDaddy & 1.0.0.rc14 >> $cat /etc/fstab

/dev/sda1        /                ext4        defaults        1  1

#/dev/sda3        /home            ext4        defaults        1  2

/dev/sdb4  /home        ext4 defaults 1 2



/dev/sdb1        /media/windows10 ntfs-3g    fmask=111,dmask=000 1  0

/dev/sda3      /media/void          ext4 defaults 0 3



#/dev/sdb4      /media/void2      ext4 defaults 0 3



#/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      auto        noauto,owner,ro,comment=x-gvfs-show 0  0

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner    0  0

devpts          /dev/pts        devpts      gid=5,mode=620  0  0

proc            /proc            proc        defaults        0  0

tmpfs            /dev/shm        tmpfs      defaults        0  0

You could try using src2pkg to mimic your dmraid installation. If you can do that, you can use src2pkg to make a package that you can install (overwriting the old installation) and then uninstall (removing it from the system).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium (Post 5617583)

Code:

root@SlackDaddy & dmraid >> $FAIL_ON_BAD_DIRS=NO  src2pkg  dmraid-1.0.0.rc14.tar.bz2

Found source archive: dmraid-1.0.0.rc14.tar.bz2

Deleting old build files - Done

Creating working directories:

  PKG_DIR=/tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1

  SRC_DIR=/tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-src-1

Unpacking source archive - Done

Correcting source permissions - Done

Checking for patches - None found

  Notice - The configuration files are in a subdirectory: 1.0.0.rc14

Found configure script - Done

Configuring sources using:

 LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,-L/lib64,-L/usr/lib64" CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -m64" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64

Configuration has been - Successful!

Compiling sources - Using: 'make'

Compiling has been - Successful!

Checking for Makefile rule: 'install' Okay

Checking support for DESTDIR (or similar) - Found DESTDIR

Creating package content using:

  make DESTDIR=/tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1 install



Warning! These sources have broken DESTDIR support!

Warning! Makefile installs these files outside of DESTDIR:

/usr/lib64/libdmraid.a

  Notice - The above-listed files will be added to the package content.

  But, the originals will not be removed as they may have already existed.

Correcting DESTDIR errors - Processing package content:

/usr/libexec/src2pkg/09-fix_pkg_perms: line 380: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input

/usr/libexec/src2pkg/09-fix_pkg_perms: line 380: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input

Correcting package permissions - Done

Stripping ELF binaries - Using: strip -p --strip-unneeded Done

Stripping static archives - Using: strip -p --strip-debug Done

Checking for standard documents - Done

Compressing man pages - Done

Verified slack-desc found - Inserting in package as PKG_DIR/install/slack-desc

Rechecking package correctness:

Rechecking package permissions - Done

Checking for dead links in PKG_DIR - Done

Searching for links in: dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1 - None found

Creating package: dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1.txz - Done

Package Creation - Successful! Package Location:

/tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1.txz

Code:

root@SlackDaddy & dmraid >> $installpkg /tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1.txz

Verifying package dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1.txz.

Installing package dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1.txz:

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:

# dmraid Device-Mapper Software RAID support tool

# 

# This software discovers, activates, deactivates and displays

# properties of software RAID sets (eg, ATARAID) and contained

# DOS partitions. dmraid uses libdevmapper and the device-mapper

# kernel runtime to create devices with respective mappings

# for the ATARAID sets discovered.

#

# Packaged by root <root@SlackDaddy>

Package dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1.txz installed.

Code:



root@SlackDaddy & dmraid >> $removepkg dmraid



Removing package /var/log/packages/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1...

Removing files:

  --> Deleting /tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1/usr/sbin/dmraid

  --> Deleting /usr/doc/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/CHANGELOG

  --> Deleting /usr/doc/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/CREDITS

  --> Deleting /usr/doc/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/LICENSE

  --> Deleting /usr/doc/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/LICENSE_GPL

  --> Deleting /usr/doc/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/LICENSE_LGPL

  --> Deleting /usr/doc/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/README

  --> Deleting /usr/doc/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/TODO

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/display.h

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/dmraid.h

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/format.h

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/lib_context.h

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/list.h

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/locking.h

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/metadata.h

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/misc.h

  --> Deleting /usr/include/dmraid/reconfig.h

  --> Deleting /usr/lib64/libdmraid.a

  --> Deleting /usr/man/man8/dmraid.8.gz

  --> Deleting empty directory /usr/include/dmraid/

  --> Deleting empty directory /usr/doc/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/

  --> Deleting empty directory /tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1/usr/sbin/

WARNING: Unique directory /tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1/usr/ contains new files

WARNING: Unique directory /tmp/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-x86_64-1/ contains new files

Code:



root@SlackDaddy & dmraid >> $whereis dmraid

dmraid: /sbin/dmraid /usr/man/man8/dmraid.8

Code:



root@SlackDaddy & dmraid >> $ls /dev/mapper

control

just documenting my actions at this moment. :D

OK

I just got gparted started and it is still throwing that error /dev/mapper/no RAID crap grrr .. not blaming you mind ya.. just grrrr

let me reboot and see what happens.

Quote:

You could try using src2pkg to mimic your dmraid installation.

instead of "Just run src2pkg to make a package out of dmraid."

I concede that I should have been more explicit in what I meant by "You could try using src2pkg to mimic your dmraid installation." Sorry about that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium (Post 5617656)

If you originally ran ./configure and didn't provide any options, you are almost certainly to have installed everything somewhere in /usr/local.

src2pkg will attempt to put stuff into /usr by default. So you'd have to tell src2pkg to not do that. That's why I wrote instead of "Just run src2pkg to make a package out of dmraid."

I concede that I should have been more explicit in what I meant by "You could try using src2pkg to mimic your dmraid installation." Sorry about that.

that's right not a big deal though ..re- installed, reconfigured and back up and running again. thanks cheers!