Bug#570960: shouldn't block migration to testing

[Colin Watson]

severity 570960 important
tags 570960 moreinfo
thanks

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:46:35PM -0500, Andres Cimmarusti wrote:
> IMHO these bug reports were made to the version of grub2 currently in
> squeeze (and lenny) and should not prevent migration from sid of the new
> version 1.98 which is a stable release (while the version in squeeze is a
> snapshot).
> 
> Please try the new version of grub2 from Sid. Hopefully this will fix the
> problem.

Andres, note that you need to CC the original reporter if you want him
to see your message.

Alexander: could you please retest with grub2 1.98-1, currently in
testing?  If it still doesn't work, then take a backup of
/usr/sbin/grub-install, apply the following patch to
/usr/sbin/grub-install, and re-run grub-install in whatever way is
appropriate for your setup; this should produce enormous amounts of
debugging information, and it would be useful to see the last screenful
or so of it.

=== modified file 'util/grub-install.in'
--- util/grub-install.in	2010-02-03 00:24:07 +0000
+++ util/grub-install.in	2010-05-27 12:30:28 +0000
@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ if [ "x${devabstraction_module}" = "x" ]
         fi
         echo "search.fs_uuid ${uuid} root " > ${grubdir}/load.cfg
 	echo 'set prefix=($root)'"${relative_grubdir}" >> ${grubdir}/load.cfg
+        echo 'set debug=all' >> ${grubdir}/load.cfg
 	config_opt="-c ${grubdir}/load.cfg "
         modules="$modules search_fs_uuid"
     elif [ "x${grub_drive}" != "x${install_drive}" ] ; then
@@ -336,8 +337,12 @@ if [ "x${devabstraction_module}" = "x" ]
         fi
         echo "search.fs_uuid ${uuid} root " > ${grubdir}/load.cfg
 	echo 'set prefix=($root)'"${relative_grubdir}" >> ${grubdir}/load.cfg
+        echo 'set debug=all' >> ${grubdir}/load.cfg
 	config_opt="-c ${grubdir}/load.cfg "
         modules="$modules search_fs_uuid"
+    else
+        echo 'set debug=all' > ${grubdir}/load.cfg
+        config_opt="-c ${grubdir}/load.cfg "
     fi
 else
     prefix_drive=`$grub_probe --target=drive --device ${grub_device}`

In the meantime, this seems not too widespread, so I'm going to
downgrade this bug from release-critical to important for now, until we
get more information on what's going on.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]