Bug#551319: [grub] grub: crashes frequently on boot

[Colin Watson]

severity 551319 important
tags 551319 moreinfo
thanks

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:16:12AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> The new grub package seems to be very unstable -- at least at my acer aspire 5630 Laptops:
> 
> I see the following behaviours:
> - laptop reboots (just after the screen gets blank, ready to print "GRUB loading"
> - grub hangs just after telling "Loading GRUB"
> - sometimes it displays something like "Corrupt End-Of-Free Marker found after <some-hex-address>. 
>  Next time I see that message, I will write it down to have it exactly
> 
> After several tries (average 5 tries) it will eventually succeed booting.
> 
> If you need more informations, please let me know what you need. In the mean time I try grub-legacy too rule out hardware problems.

Did you get this message again, and write it down?  Could we have the
exact text?  I can't find any text in GRUB that's similar to the message
you report, so it's hard to tell what's going on here.

Can you reproduce this behaviour with version 1.98-1, currently in
testing?

I'm going to downgrade this from release-critical to important in the
meantime, since it does seem to be fairly hardware-specific.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]