Bug#473209: More info

[Sami Liedes]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:10:40PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 04:39:22PM +0300, Sami Liedes wrote:
> > I initially had the same problem with "Cannot get the real path of
> > /dev/hda".
> 
> This is fixed now (will be in next upload).

Thanks.

> 
> > However now update-grub hangs pretty much forever, and I get messages
> > like this on my kernel log:
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > [4520359.961987] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520372.128819] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520384.295621] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520384.295633] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> > [4520396.461384] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520396.461396] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> > [4520408.628195] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520420.797716] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520420.797722] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> > [4520432.972089] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520432.972102] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> > [4520467.706750] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520479.878390] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520492.048230] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > [4520492.048236] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> > ...
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Please could you file a separate bug for this?

On further inspection, this is probably the same as the 3 1/2 years
old #282063.

> > I rebuilt grub-common with debug syms and got a backtrace. The crash
> > occurs in the LVM code. Curiously the crash happens when calling
> > grub_lvm_scan_device("hd0,3"), not while probing for the floppy disk.
> 
> Same here.

This is #474343, also analyzed there (although with little less
depth). I'll forward the relevant parts of my original report to that
bug.

	Sami
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