Bug 15703

Summary:	Resolve sgdisk UUID warning in gptfdisk package
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	John Koch <jkoch>
Component:	Outdated package	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED
Severity:	normal	CC:	buildroot, yann.morin.1998
Priority:	P5
Version:	2023.02.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description John Koch 2023-07-18 16:23:00 UTC

When using any option that generates a random UUID using sgdisk (e.g. sgdisk -G /dev/sda) you are presented with the warning:
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!

This appears to stem from a change in libuuid where a #define was changed: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/10f5f79485964ab52272ebe79c3b0047b1f84d82

Upstream gptfdisk has resolved this issue on 2022-04-16 (and a few others since) but these patches haven't yet made it into the buildroot package.
Upstream commit: https://sourceforge.net/p/gptfdisk/code/ci/6a8416cbd12d55f882bb751993b94f72d338d96f/

Comment 1 Yann E. MORIN 2024-06-15 15:11:42 UTC

Thank you for your report.

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