Bug#462449: detection of unreadable files in grub-probe

[Robert Millan]

Ok, there are two bugs here, so I'll reply separately.  The first bug is
that ext4 cannot be read;  the second is that grub-probe is unable to
detect that.  This mail is about the second.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:45:27PM +0100, Idzi wrote:
> > What does "grub-probe -t fs /usr" print?
> 
> ext2

If you try the complete command (the same that update-grub is using):

  grub-probe -t fs /usr/share/grub/unicode.pff

I assume it still reports "ext2", but it should print an error because it
can't really be read by GRUB (yet).

I just committed a sanity check to prevent this in upstream CVS, please can
you test:

  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/grub co grub2
  cd grub2
  ./configure && make grub-probe
  sudo ./grub-probe -t fs /usr/share/grub/unicode.pff

  ?

This should print an error instead (which is the correct reaction given
that our ext2 driver can't read your file).

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Robert Millan

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