Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

[Joey Hess]

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Euan MacGregor wrote:
> reopen 239111
> thanks
>=20
> (Side note: the version that claims to have fixed it wasn't present with
> the release candidate version of d-i, so this was using a sid snapshot im=
age
> from 20040807)

I'm afraid I can reproduce this too. With grub -7, the xfs_freeze stuff
does happen, but the result seems to be that the grub command gets stuck
in an uninterruptable sleep. I tried thawing the xfs partition after a
few minutes, and grub happily continued with the install. I see the same
kind of hang if I freeze an XFS partition and then try to write to it,
so it seems like running the grub command must somehow be writing to the
XFS partition as well as accessing it directly. It's seems we're damed
if we do, and damned if we don't...=20

FWIW, my test was with a system that had a single XFS partition for the
whole root filesystem, including /boot.

I thought perhaps it was the redirection of grub's output to a log file
by grub-install, since writing to a log file when XFS is frozen could
hang. But even after removing the redirection to $log_file, it still
hangs. :-(

--=20
see shy jo

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