Package: os-prober Version: 1.65 Severity: critical Tags: newcomer Justification: breaks the whole system
Dear Maintainer, During the upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade) of a computer from debian7 (Wheezy) to Debian8 (Jessie) the system still runs the kernel 3.2 from Wheezy; but the os-prober version used by update-grub is already the one from Jessie... and hang. According to: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/05/msg00077.html (and related bugs at maegia), the new os-prober (from Jessie) is unable to scan a hard-drive containing Extended partitions (like sdb4 hereafter) and locks forever (at least 90mn), locking the debian system in the middle of a dist- upgrade. Disque /dev/sdb : 1,8 TiB, 2000398934016 octets, 3907029168 secteurs Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets Type d'étiquette de disque : dos Identifiant de disque : 0x9a2578f7 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 63 33575849 33575787 16G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb2 33575850 243304424 209728575 100G 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 243304425 453032999 209728575 100G 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 453033000 3907024064 3453991065 1,6T 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 453033063 557905319 104872257 50G 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 557905383 662777639 104872257 50G 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 662777703 767649959 104872257 50G 83 Linux /dev/sdb8 767650023 872522279 104872257 50G 83 Linux /dev/sdb9 872522343 1082250854 209728512 100G 83 Linux /dev/sdb10 1082250918 3907024064 2824773147 1,3T 83 Linux The system was fully occupied by a "mount" process trying to mount /dev/sdb4. This process was uninteruptable (kill -9 being ineffective) and forced to reboot exactly at the stage grub was updating. The only solution found was to boot an external device with a rescue system and a recent kernel (3.16) to finish the dist-upgrade. One solution may have been to upgrade first the kernel via wheezy-backports packages before upgrading to Jessie. Best regards, Jerome Kieffer -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (800, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF8 (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 2.19-18 os-prober recommends no packages. os-prober suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
