Bug#295749: update-grub segfault with "vmlinuz-good" kernel image in /boot

[Jason Thomas]

please run update-grub with vmlinuz-good like so.

sh -x update-grub

Thanks.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:57:17PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-14
> Severity: normal
> 
> I put a kernel called vmlinuz-good in /boot, and update-grub did this:
> 
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
> Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
> Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-good
> Segmentation fault
> User hook script /sbin/update-grub failed at /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp.postinst line 1008.
> 
> There was a long pause before the segfault, and normally it lists other, debian
> kernels too..
> 
> I renamed the kernel image to vmlinuz.good, and this somehow avoided the
> problem.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> 
> Versions of packages grub depends on:
> ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo



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