Bug#549627: grub: similar problems

[Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-58
Severity: normal

Hi.

I'm not really sure if this is the same bug.

Most of the description seems to fit what I see. I can't configure
linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64 on my system:

I get the following error:

Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-amd64
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-amd64
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-amd64
 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-amd64) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64.postinst line 569.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-amd64
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-amd64
 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-amd64) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64.postinst line 569.
Running update-grub.
Generating grub.cfg ...
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 139
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-amd64:
 linux-image-2.6-amd64 depends on linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64; however:
  Package linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-amd64 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64
 linux-image-2.6-amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Maybe it's a different error, I get return value 139 instead of 1, but
the same error message from update-initramfs, however update-grub
doesn't complain about not finding my drives.

Disk setup:

root at abrasax:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/lvm-root  1.8T  830G  959G  47% /
tmpfs                 754M     0  754M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  172K  9.9M   2% /dev
tmpfs                 754M     0  754M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             1.9G  164M  1.6G  10% /boot
root at abrasax:~# grub-probe -d /dev/mapper/lvm-root
ext2
root at abrasax:~# grub-probe -d /dev/sda1
ext2

update-initrams -c -t -k all creates working initramdisks and I can boot the 2.6.30-2 kernel with that ramdisk, if I edit the grub entry manually.

First migration to new grub worked fine last weekend , this is the
first kernel upgrade after the migration.

I use the same grub and kernel on a laptop, also debian testing, and
upgraded today qwithout problems (both systems have very similar
packages installed and comparable software configurations, however the
hardware is very different).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-pc                     1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version

grub recommends no packages.

grub suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* grub/migrate_from_legacy: