Bug#707653: grub2-common: After Grub 2.00-14 upgrade, system failed to boot (rescue, old grub 1.99 still in mbr)

Michael Musenbrock redeamer at gmx.net
Fri May 10 09:01:26 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:06, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 08:44:57AM +0200, Michael Musenbrock wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:46:19AM +0200, Michael Musenbrock wrote:
> > > > It seems to me, that the grub-install, or whatever mechanism is used
> > > > internally to write the new grub, was not run on upgrade.
> > > [snip]
> > > Could you please run:
> > >
> > > /usr/share/reportbug/handle_bugscript /usr/share/bug/grub-pc-bin/script grub.out
> > >
> > > ... and attach the grub.out file created by that command, as well as the
> > > output of 'sudo debconf-show grub-pc'?
> >
> > I've attached those files.
> 
> Please answer "n" to the LVM question - answering "y" and then failing
> to provide correct su authentication means that it gives me incomplete
> output. (The script is a bit flaky now that I look at it.)

And here we go again.

yfji, I ran the script as root on the first run, so definitely no su auth
failure, but missing lvm command errors instead, which seems to  mess up
the output as well.

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