Bug#239111: Not fixed when I tested it

[Joey Hess]

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Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:00:25PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:
> >=20
> > 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
> >=20
> > FWIW, my test was with a system that had a single XFS partition for the
> > whole root filesystem, including /boot.
> >=20
> > 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
> Hi Joey,
>=20
> Could you try to mount / as readonly before grub-install is run?

Doesn't grub-install copy things into /boot? My /boot was on the root
filesystem in the test that I did.

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see shy jo

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