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has caused the Debian Bug report #243835,
regarding grub-install hangs with xfs root/boot
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Package: grub
Version: 0.93+cvs20031021-8
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
The debian installer can install a system with / or /boot on XFS. When
it tries to install grub on such a system, the grub-install run hangs,
seemingly forever. The last thing output is "Probing devices to guess
BIOS drives." The cpu is pegged too. This has been reproduced on more
than one machine, and I found something that looked like the same
problem on google. I've seen it with both the 2.4.25 and 2.6.5 kernels.
We have put a guard in d-i to deal with this, it warns users that XFS
/boot (or root) will not work with grub. This is not an ideal solution,
users want to use XFS for these partitions.
Note that often, if the hanging grub is killed, grub-install can be
re-run and it does not hang, and works. I don't know why, but this makes
reproducing the problem annoying; the best way is to do a new d-i install
each time. :-/
Ancedotally, people seem to think the problem happens if the XFS
filesystem is not synced to disk when grub accesses it directly.
I've tried a few things. I tried adding 3 calls to sync before each call
to $grub_shell, but it still hangs. I remounted the filesystem ro and
then back to rw before calling grub-install, on the theory this might
make xfs put it in a consistent state, but no luck, it still hung.
It would be nice if this could be fixed, or even worked around better
than it currently is.
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Source: grub
Source-Version: 0.97-47lenny2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grub, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
grub-disk_0.97-47lenny2_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-disk_0.97-47lenny2_all.deb
grub-doc_0.97-47lenny2_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-doc_0.97-47lenny2_all.deb
grub-legacy-doc_0.97-47lenny2_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-legacy-doc_0.97-47lenny2_all.deb
grub_0.97-47lenny2.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-47lenny2.diff.gz
grub_0.97-47lenny2.dsc
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-47lenny2.dsc
grub_0.97-47lenny2_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-47lenny2_i386.deb
multiboot-doc_0.97-47lenny2_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/multiboot-doc_0.97-47lenny2_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 243...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> (supplier of updated grub package)
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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:18:45 +0100
Source: grub
Binary: grub grub-disk grub-doc grub-legacy-doc multiboot-doc
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 0.97-47lenny2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com>
Description:
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image (dummy package)
grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy package)
grub-legacy-doc - Documentation for GRUB Legacy
multiboot-doc - The Multiboot specification
Closes: 239111 243835 246111 309218 425367
Changes:
grub (0.97-47lenny2) unstable; urgency=high
.
* patches/xfs_freeze.diff: Replace with a new patch, which thaws XFS
inmediately after freezing it. (Closes: #239111, #243835, #246111,
#309218, #425367) hopefully for good this time. Thanks everyone
who sent their feedback, too many to list them here.
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