Package: os-prober Version: 1.65 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
update-grub on my system fails to generate a valid grub.cfg. the culprit is /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/50lilo, which fails to parse my lilo.conf file, generating entries such as: ::4.3.3:/boot/vmlinuz-4.3.3-040303-generic:/boot/initrd.img-4.3.3-040303-generic:ro vga = 0 append = "root=/dev/vg_cerebro/root rootfstype=ext4 rootdelay=5 relatime elevator=cfq transparent_hugepage=always kernelcore=6G ip=10.0.0.1::10.0.0.5:255.255.255.240:cerebro-preboot:eth0:off pcie_aspm=force 3w-9xxx.use_msi=0 zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=lz4 syscall.x32=y modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nvidiafb the problem here is the append = "... which lacks a trailing ", causing grub to barf eventually. disabling this script with an exit 0 at the top makes update-grub run through. I debugged a bit, and found that at some point, dequoute is called with a full line from the lilo.conf. Specifically, my lilo.conf contains this line: append = "root=/dev/vg_cerebro/root rootfstype=ext4 rootdelay=5 relatime elevator=cfq transparent_hugepage=always kernelcore=6G ip=10.0.0.1::10.0.0.5:255.255.255.240:cerebro-preboot:eth0:off pcie_aspm=force 3w-9xxx.use_msi=0 zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=lz4 syscall.x32=y modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nvidiafb" which is passed to the dequote function, which removes the trailing " and nothing else, ultimately leading to the failure as this ends up directly in grub.cfg. I have not investigated further. Greetings, Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.13-040113-generic (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages os-prober depends on: ii libc6 2.21-7 os-prober recommends no packages. os-prober suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/50lilo (from os-prober package)
