Re: Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

2004-08-19 Thread Robert Millan
tags 239111 help thanks On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:51:16AM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > The grub shell needs to write to /dev/hda for grabbing stage files into the > > boot sector (see lib/device.c in grub source code). > > But that write doesn't go through xfs surely. Is th

Re: Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

2004-08-15 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: > The grub shell needs to write to /dev/hda for grabbing stage files into the > boot sector (see lib/device.c in grub source code). But that write doesn't go through xfs surely. Is there any filesystem writing involved? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital sign

Re: Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

2004-08-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:22:45PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > I still don't understand why the current solution doesn't work. xfs_freeze > > suposedly puts the filesystem in a state that all write requests are blocked. > > > > Am I missing something? > > xfs_freeze is def

Re: Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

2004-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: > I still don't understand why the current solution doesn't work. xfs_freeze > suposedly puts the filesystem in a state that all write requests are blocked. > > Am I missing something? xfs_freeze is definitly causing all write to block. Apparently something in grub-installer

Re: Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

2004-08-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:39:08PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Could you try to mount / as readonly before grub-install is run? > > Doesn't grub-install copy things into /boot? My /boot was on the root > filesystem in the test that I did. True. It was just me being si

Re: Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

2004-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:00:25PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > I'm afraid I can reproduce this too. With grub -7, the xfs_freeze stuff > > does happen, but the result seems to be that the grub command gets stuck > > in an uninterruptable sleep. I tried thawing the xfs pa

Re: Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

2004-08-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:00:25PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > > I'm afraid I can reproduce this too. With grub -7, the xfs_freeze stuff > does happen, but the result seems to be that the grub command gets stuck > in an uninterruptable sleep. I tried thawing the xfs partition after a > few minutes,