Bug#587335: fails to upgrade

[Yann Dirson]

Hi Colin,

On my side, after upgrading, grub-probe consistently returns "ext2" even on
or within lv mountpoints.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:05:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> forcemerge 550704 587335
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 06:14:03PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > I must say I don't understand what grub-probe is supposed to do/return,
> > the manpage is awfully terse.
> > 
> > On my lvm-based machine (non-encrypted), it gives the same error message
> > for lv mountpoints, and for /boot and / just returns "ext2" (despite
> > / being a lv too) - I thought it was supposed to return a device
> > name of some sort, but it appears not.
> 
> That depends on what argument you give to --target ...
> 
> > Despite this, the upgrade on this machine does work.
> > 
> > In short, it is very possible that you are hit by a bug in grub, so I
> > reassign this report.
> 
> Neither of you mention which version of grub-common you have installed.
> However, it sounds like you're both being hit by #550704, and that Jö
> may be being hit by #542165 as well.  Both are fixed in any version from
> 1.98+20100614-1 on, so please upgrade to the latest grub-common in
> unstable and let me know if that fixes things.
> 
> I'll merge this with #550704 for the meantime.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]