Package: grub-pc Version: 1.97~beta4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Installing grub-pc on my Dell PowerEdge 2950 hangs during postinst: Setting up grub-common (1.97~beta4-1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ... Setting up grub-pc (1.97~beta4-1) ... (need ctrl-c) I tried with 1.97~beta3-1 and 1.97~beta4-1, same result. Two (similar) machines do this. I have 4 other older poweredge 2950 where grub-pc installs fine. Not sure what hardware difference could explain this, the software installation is pretty much the same. After trying to fix this a couple time and having to abort with ctrl-c, I see this in ps: 0 D root 14935 1 0 80 0 - 944 ? 07:26 ? 00:00:00 grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy 0 D root 15311 1 0 80 0 - 944 ? 07:33 ? 00:00:00 grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy 0 D root 15498 1 0 80 0 - 944 ? 07:58 ? 00:00:00 grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy 0 D root 15853 1 0 80 0 - 944 ? 07:58 ? 00:00:00 grub-mkdevicemap --device-map=/tmp/device.map.pAT8GlfT --no-floppy 0 D root 15893 1 0 80 0 - 944 ? 08:01 ? 00:00:00 grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy So it looks like grub-mkdevicemap hangs here. These processes are not killable. I thought of rebooting the machine to cleanup these processes but I don't konw what the partial installation actually broke from my old grub1 install. device.map was left empty. I restored it. Which other files should I check before I can reboot? thanks, Brice -- Package-specific info: *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/sda3 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/scratch ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, lc_ctype=fr...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii grub-common 1.97~beta4-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii ucf 3.0021 Update Configuration File: preserv grub-pc recommends no packages. Versions of packages grub-pc suggests: pn desktop-base <none> (no description available) pn genisoimage <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline: * grub2/linux_cmdline: console=ttyS1,57600 console=tty0 * grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true grub-pc/kopt_extracted: true grub-pc/install_devices: grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet * grub2/linux_cmdline_default: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
