Bug#229647: update-grub runs forever when there are symlinks in /boot

[Martin Koeppe]

Package: grub
Version: 0.93+cvs20031021-8
Severity: normal

I have /boot as an extra partition and had (among others) the files

"vmlinuz-2.4.20-bf2.4"
"vmlinuz-bf" symlinked relative just to "vmlinuz-2.4.20-bf2.4"

in it. The symlink is historical, and was used with lilo before.
Running update-grub in this situation lets update-grub never finish execution.

After deleting the symlink, it runs just fine.

Maybe you want correct these spelling errors in update-grub, too
(don't want to file an extra bug for this):

line 524:  "menu.lst"  instead of  "menu.list"
line 585:  "options"   instead of  "optons"
line 593:  "specific"  instead of  "specifiv"


Martin Koeppe


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mkpc 2.4.24-1-686 #1 Tue Jan 6 21:29:44 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030719-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information