Thanks Colin Watson, you do such great work!
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This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.98-1ubuntu13
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[ Colin Watson ]
* Handle partition devices without corresponding disk devices
(LP: #623609).
[ Ken Stailey ]
* Backport upstream patch to skip LVM snapshots (L
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.
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Oh, right after I wrote that I remembered LP: #623609
Does 1.98-1ubuntu13 fix that?
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@Colin: that will not work for /dev/vda on Ubuntu 10.04.
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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.
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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
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
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
@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/
nutznboltz please post information that pertains to the bug. All the
extra stuff you are tossing in serves no purpose.
Thanks.
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The system rebooted with the snapshot. Everything works. Thanks.
** Tags removed: verification-needed
** Tags added: verification-done
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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
> 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
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
*
Sorry, Colin, it's not about you. I'll explain later if I get the
chance.
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(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
@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
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)
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/lucid-proposed/grub2
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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!
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** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/lucid/grub2/lucid
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** 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)
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I will be on vacation through Jan 5, 2012. Please do not ask for
testing until after that date, thanks.
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: New => Confirmed
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** Also affects: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Lucid)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-10.04.4
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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
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
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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
** 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:
Created PPA to host patched grub-pc package:
https://launchpad.net/~nutznboltz/+archive/lucid-grub2-skip-lvm-snapshots
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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
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
** 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:
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
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The answer to "why didn't this get into Lucid?" is nobody did the SRU
process:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure
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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?
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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?
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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
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
this issue should be mentioned in the documentation of grub2 until the
fix arrives in LTS.
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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
** Changed in: grub2 (Debian)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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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
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** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #574863
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574863
** Also affects: grub2 (Debian) via
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Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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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
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
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?
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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
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