Bug#477304: Grub fails to find /boot/boot/grub/device.map

[Nick Hastings]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-36
Severity: important


During the runing of the postinst script for a recent kernel upgrade, grub
failed to find `/boot/boot/grub/device.map'. Instead it complained:

grub-probe: error: Cannot open `/boot/grub/device.map'

On a system with a separate /boot partition (such as this one), I
would have thought that device.map should live in /boot/boot/grub
along with menu.lst and friends. Downgrading to grub 0.97-35 did not
help, but downgradingto grub 0.97-27 in stable did.

Here is the output from the failed kernel postinst with grub 0.97-36
(note that grub install dir is correctly found at /boot/boot/grub, but
that grub-probe looks for /boot/grub/device.map):

% sudo aptitude install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (2.6.24-6) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
Other valid candidates: mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled 
(2.6.24-5 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled 
(2.6.24-5 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/boot/grub
grub-probe: error: Cannot open `/boot/grub/device.map'
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (2.6.24-6) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
Other valid candidates: mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled 
(2.6.24-5 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled 
(2.6.24-5 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/boot/grub
grub-probe: error: Cannot open `/boot/grub/device.map'
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done




-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-10         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080419-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information