Package: libgeom0 Version: 8.2-2 Severity: grave Justification: cannot install grub-pc Affects: grub-common
Hi, Typical kfreebsd-amd64 experimental system (running through qemu). Was upgrading today for the first time since 2011-05-06. Previously I had grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13 installed. When it came to be time to upgrade grub-pc, some warnings about camcontrol as usual, then a debconf dialog about choosing between /dev/ad0 and /dev/ad0s1 if I remember it correctly. I choose /dev/ad0. Then another debconf dialog about that failing and whether I want to continue anyway. I choose "No" and it goes back in a loop. (Wouldn't failing postinst at that point be better, so the package manager can do its job by downgrading or trying again at the next "dpkg --configure -a"? Ah, now that I check, it looks like that's what "Yes" to install_devices_failed does --- hmm.) Lacking an escape route, I hit ^C, reconfigure debconf to use the readline plugin, and ran "dpkg --configure -a" to try again. Now: # dpkg --configure -a Setting up grub-pc (1.99-6) ... Generating grub.pc ... Found kernel of FreeBSD: /boot/kfreebsd-8.2-1-amd64.gz Found kernel module directory: /lib/modules/8.2-1-amd64 /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ad0s1. Check your device.map ls: cannot access /lib/modules/8.2-1-amd64/unknown.ko: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Hmm, that's different. Weird. The device.map says: (hd0) /dev/ad0 Removing grub-pc-bin and grub2-common and downgrading grub-pc and grub-common to 1.99~rc1-13 still gives the "cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ad0s1" error, without the "cannot access ...unknown.ko" one. Based on a memory of Bug#612128, I try downgrading libgeom0 from 8.2-2 to 8.1-5. That works. Known problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110611005634.GA6729@elie
