[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-30 Thread nutznboltz
Thanks Colin Watson, you do such great work! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists To manage notifications about thi

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-29 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.98-1ubuntu13 --- grub2 (1.98-1ubuntu13) lucid-proposed; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Handle partition devices without corresponding disk devices (LP: #623609). [ Ken Stailey ] * Backport upstream patch to skip LVM snapshots (L

Re: [Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
Torsten asked for /dev/sda, not /dev/vda, so that is moot anyway. Yes, as indicated in the changelog, 1.98-1ubuntu13 should also fix bug 623609. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 T

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-24 Thread nutznboltz
Oh, right after I wrote that I remembered LP: #623609 Does 1.98-1ubuntu13 fix that? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot ex

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-24 Thread nutznboltz
@Colin: that will not work for /dev/vda on Ubuntu 10.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists To manage notificatio

Re: [Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:02:37AM -, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > I had to run > > # grub-install /dev/sda > > to actually update the grub installation Run 'dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' to set this up to run automatically on future upgrades. -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Okay, I just installed the version from lucid-proposed: torsten@sharokan:~$ dpkg -l|grep grub ii grub-common 1.98-1ubuntu13 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files) ii grub-pc

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
I actually applied the fix manually but did not set the fixed package on hold as I had the hope that any update to the grub package in lucid would fix this. Yesterday my system crashed while working with schroot and snapshots and is now unbootable again :-) So I am interested in a fix once again a

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-22 Thread dblade
Most people applied the fixed package manually and moved on over a year ago. Are you really surprised? I'm not here to debate whether or not is right or wrong to report a bug, or provide info regarding a bug, and then not be involved every step of the way. People have the right to contribute or

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-21 Thread nutznboltz
@dblade it's the price that you pay for not doing the SRU work yourself. The reward for being the one to do the work is that you don't have to listen to the ones who are doing it for you. Why not spend some time learning how to do the work? I have some information for you: http://www.youtube.com/

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread dblade
nutznboltz please post information that pertains to the bug. All the extra stuff you are tossing in serves no purpose. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fai

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread nutznboltz
The system rebooted with the snapshot. Everything works. Thanks. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title:

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread nutznboltz
nutz@lp-563895:~$ sudo lvcreate -s -l 437 /dev/vg0/lv0 Logical volume "lvol0" created nutz@lp-563895:~$ sudo vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg01 3 1 wz--n- 6.00g0 nutz@lp-563895:~$ sudo lvs LVVG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert lv0 vg0 ow

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread nutznboltz
> Why aren't they testing now? What could be wrong? Wait! Maybe it's that they are all stupid! Yeah, that's it they're too stupid to test. Don't worry stupid people, I'll do your testing for you. nutz@lp-563895:~$ apt-cache policy grub-pc grub-pc: Installed: 1.98-1ubuntu13 Candidate: 1.98-1

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread nutznboltz
The following non-developers have made comments in this bug indicating they understand at least a little bit about this problem: * https://launchpad.net/~alvind * https://launchpad.net/~nigelbabu * https://launchpad.net/~listmail * https://launchpad.net/~berni * https://launchpad.net/~bugs-sehe *

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread nutznboltz
Sorry, Colin, it's not about you. I'll explain later if I get the chance. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists To

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
(Also, I think I can probably do the testing if necessary, so I think you're exaggerating about "only person on Earth", not to mention that Martin's comment was generated by the sru-accept.py script rather than written by hand; but given said inhuman amounts of work it would probably stand a better

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
@nutznboltz: Thanks for your patch, and sorry I took so long to deal with it. It needed to be reformatted into a patch with proper headers and attribution in debian/patches/, to match the rest of the package. Since this has been waiting so long, I just went ahead and did this rather than walking y

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread nutznboltz
Interesting dates in the life of LP: #563895 March 21, 2010 - Reported as Debian #574863 April 4, 2010 (elapsed 14 days) Reported as LP: #563895 June 2, 2010 (elapsed 73 days) Fix committed into Debian and Debian bug closed. July 5, 2010 (elapsed 106 days) Fix committed in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick)

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/lucid-proposed/grub2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists To manage notifications about

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Alvin, or anyone else affected, Accepted grub2 into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! **

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/lucid/grub2/lucid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists To manage notif

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Pitt
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-12-08 Thread nutznboltz
I will be on vacation through Jan 5, 2012. Please do not ask for testing until after that date, thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot or install wh

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-15 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title:

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
** Also affects: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid) Milestone: None => ubuntu-10.04.4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-14 Thread nutznboltz
http://askubuntu.com/questions/79347/what-is-the-policy-for-updating- grub-pc-in-lts -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot e

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-10 Thread nutznboltz
I applied the patched grub-pc and grub-common packages from my PPA https://launchpad.net/~nutznboltz/+archive/lucid-grub2-skip-lvm-snapshots to an HP DL-165 G5 today. Prior to applying the patches the system was unbootable. One thing that I did have to do was: 1. aptitude purge grub-pc grub-com

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-09 Thread nutznboltz
No one has responded to my effort to convert this bug report into an SRU request so I did the only thing I know, I opened LP: #888069 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-08 Thread nutznboltz
Confirmed patch from PPA https://launchpad.net/~nutznboltz/+archive/lucid-grub2-skip-lvm-snapshots fixes issue. VM with patch via PPA installed booted despite snapshot: nutz@lp-563895:~$ dpkg -l |grep grub ii grub-common 1.98-1ubuntu12.1~ppa1~lucid1 GRand Unified Bootlo

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-08 Thread nutznboltz
** Description changed: SRU Justification: Impact: When /boot and / are in an LVM VG and a snapshot is made of an LVM LV in that VG the system will not boot and grub can not be modified - (updated, reinstalled.) + (updated, reinstalled) until all snapshots are removed. Testcase:

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-08 Thread nutznboltz
Created PPA to host patched grub-pc package: https://launchpad.net/~nutznboltz/+archive/lucid-grub2-skip-lvm-snapshots -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: grub2 fails to boot

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-08 Thread nutznboltz
Attached debdiff for Lucid (this time using "lucid-proposed" pocket) ** Patch added: "grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.1.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/563895/+attachment/2589269/+files/grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.1.debdiff ** Patch removed: "grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.1.debdiff" h

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-08 Thread nutznboltz
Attached debdiff for Lucid (this time using "lucid-proposed" pocket) ** Patch removed: "grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.1.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/563895/+attachment/2589256/+files/grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.1.debdiff ** Patch added: "grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.1.debdiff" h

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-08 Thread nutznboltz
** Description changed: + SRU Justification: + + Impact: When /boot and / are in an LVM VG and a snapshot is made of an + LVM LV in that VG the system will not boot and grub can not be modified + (updated, reinstalled.) + + Testcase: + Binary package hint: grub2 Steps to reproduce:

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-08 Thread nutznboltz
Attached debdiff for Lucid ** Patch added: "grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.1.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/563895/+attachment/2589256/+files/grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.1.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-11-07 Thread nutznboltz
The answer to "why didn't this get into Lucid?" is nobody did the SRU process: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 Title: gru

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-10-28 Thread Benaiah
I am also wondering why a bug fix is not being pushed to lucid. I know that with LTS versions you do the whole feature freeze thing and only release security updates and I think bug fixes. This is not a feature addition, it is a bug that needs to be fixed. Is this not possible? -- You received th

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-09-10 Thread fred
not having a fix for this in "LTS" after more than a year makes me sad wasted 3 hours of my life on this earlier this year - bug is known, confirmed and fixed - why not push a new grub version for lucid? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-08-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
While installation security updates to my lucid system, this made my system unbootable last week. I spent half an hour today to make it bootable again. I booted from supergrubdisk which also failed to detect LVM (it usually did). I ended up using Knoppix and noticed the leftover snapshot (created

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2011-05-09 Thread Linus van Geuns
Upgraded from maverick to natty and had a similar issue: - bootfs is ext3, rootfs ext4 - both are logical volumes on top of raid1 - did snapshots of root & boot before upgrade and it worked for the first reboot After that, grub2 just booted the menu entry, did a lot of hdd access and stoped w/o an

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-08-19 Thread p
this issue should be mentioned in the documentation of grub2 until the fix arrives in LTS. -- grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
Fixed in Maverick by merging this upstream change: grub2 (1.98+20100702-1) unstable; urgency=low * New Bazaar snapshot. [...] - Skip LVM snapshots (closes: #574863). [...] -- Colin Watson Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:42:56 +0100 ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Rele

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-07-05 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: grub2 (Debian) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-07-05 Thread Seth
Anything about this? Anytime I accidentally shutdown the system while having a snapshot (e.g. of my /home fs) I get a borked grub boot. _annoying_ I need to boot a rescue CD to lvremove my snapshot before I can boot again -- grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists https://bugs

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-05-29 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: grub2 (Debian) Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-05-29 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #574863 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574863 ** Also affects: grub2 (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574863 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM sna

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-05-29 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Err that last part obviously showed that I did not create a snapshot, but it seems to work even when I do it right r...@pest:~# lvcreate -s -L 2G -n kvm-winxp-fresh wdc/vm-winxp Logical volume "kvm-winxp-fresh" created r...@pest:~# grub-install /dev/sda error: cannot open `/dev/sdb' while attem

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-05-29 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Yes, I have had this bug on a system without any RAID (neither hardware nor mdraid) running Lucid amd64. And I can reproduce it on that particular box. r...@lxbsc02:~# lvs LVVG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert azureus wdc750g -wi-ao 300,00g

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-05-29 Thread Alvin
Except for systems using mdadm RAID1, all those I tried with LVM snapshots can boot. You're saying that taking a snapshot on /any/ Lucid system makes it unbootable? -- grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563895 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 563895] Re: grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists

2010-05-28 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Yes, you are absolutely right. I wanted to stress that it does not seem to be related to mdadm RAID1 as the original description suggested. Changed. ** Summary changed: - grub-install fails when LVM snapshot exists + grub2 fails to boot or install when an LVM snapshot exists -- grub2 fails to b