Bug#508281: update-grub: dramatically fails at reporting errors

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Jason Thomas <jason.thomas at linkinnovations.com> (10/12/2008):
> > You could try the following:
> > 
> > # sh -x update-grub
> 
> FWIW, device.map needed an update, after the hda→sda switch (2.6.26 to
> 2.6.27 and newer). Still, some verbose mode would help. Or at least
> documentation in the manpage and/or README.Debian. I don't think leaving
> people out in the cold is an option here. And IMHO such an update
> wouldn't be much of a problem from a RT point of view.

Weird, we already fixed a similar bug very recently:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501306

Can you look why the work-around doesn't work for you and what code path
was used? The sh -x output is interesting.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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