Bug#352207: grub-update does not work since update to 0.97-3

[Didrik Pinte]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-4
Severity: serious
Justification: 2


Hi,

I've just updated an AMD64 server with dist-upgrade to the latest grub
version and kernel 2.6.15.

The upgrade jumped from before 0.97-1 version to 0.97-3 version.

When calling update-grub, I receive :
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serveurmeteo:/boot# update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
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When the kernel package was update, the postinst script did not succeed
because of the update-grub not working.

The problem should be in the update-grub script after the look for the
grub installation directory but before the testing for the existance of
the menu.lst file ... Probably in the device detection ...

In case of, here is my fstab :
serveurmeteo:/boot# cat /etc/fstab
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
1
/dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

serveurmeteo:/boot#
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The SATA drives are mounted in a RAID hardware system. So there won't be
interaction with RAID software as it seems to sometimes appear...

Any help is welcome.

Didrik


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=fr_BE at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

-- no debconf information