Bug#243835: marked as done (grub-install hangs with xfs root/boot)
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Subject: grub-install hangs with xfs root/boot
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Package: grub
Version: 0.93+cvs20031021-8
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
The debian installer can install a system with / or /boot on XFS. When
it tries to install grub on such a system, the grub-install run hangs,
seemingly forever. The last thing output is "Probing devices to guess
BIOS drives." The cpu is pegged too. This has been reproduced on more
than one machine, and I found something that looked like the same
problem on google. I've seen it with both the 2.4.25 and 2.6.5 kernels.
We have put a guard in d-i to deal with this, it warns users that XFS
/boot (or root) will not work with grub. This is not an ideal solution,
users want to use XFS for these partitions.
Note that often, if the hanging grub is killed, grub-install can be
re-run and it does not hang, and works. I don't know why, but this makes
reproducing the problem annoying; the best way is to do a new d-i install
each time. :-/
Ancedotally, people seem to think the problem happens if the XFS
filesystem is not synced to disk when grub accesses it directly.
I've tried a few things. I tried adding 3 calls to sync before each call
to $grub_shell, but it still hangs. I remounted the filesystem ro and
then back to rw before calling grub-install, on the theory this might
make xfs put it in a consistent state, but no luck, it still hung.
It would be nice if this could be fixed, or even worked around better
than it currently is.
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From: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
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Subject: Bug#239111: fixed in grub 0.95+cvs20040624-7
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Source: grub
Source-Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-7
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grub, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
grub-disk_0.95+cvs20040624-7_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-disk_0.95+cvs20040624-7_all.deb
grub-doc_0.95+cvs20040624-7_all.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub-doc_0.95+cvs20040624-7_all.deb
grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7.diff.gz
grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7.dsc
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7.dsc
grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 239111@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:39:43 +0200
Source: grub
Binary: grub-disk grub grub-doc
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
Description:
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader
grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image
grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader
Closes: 239111 261447 261570
Changes:
grub (0.95+cvs20040624-7) unstable; urgency=low
.
* patches/xfs_freeze.diff: New. Fix grub-install for XFS. (Closes: #239111)
* update-grub: s/local tmp//g. Thanks again, David. (Closes: #261570)
* patches/raid_cciss.diff: New. Support for CCISS devices. (Closes: #261447)
* Use type-handling to auto-generate dpkg archlist for i386 cpus.
- control.in: New. Set 'Architecture: @i386@' and add type-handling to
Build-Depends.
- rules: Auto-generate debian/control in clean target.
Files:
9ecc6a0fede724c8ad247ce8230875ec 857 admin optional grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7.dsc
4256f9d5f1f6dc4f593925826af04dfd 53203 admin optional grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7.diff.gz
1c34fb89807fb51fe1fa35cf8116863a 348762 admin optional grub_0.95+cvs20040624-7_i386.deb
e6878cb78f5c8c2e1800e330cffcf4b5 226464 admin optional grub-disk_0.95+cvs20040624-7_all.deb
49e59bf4d82798334d3d59ba317164a3 259142 doc optional grub-doc_0.95+cvs20040624-7_all.deb
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