Bug#490661: update-grub segfaults

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:36:07PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:26:40PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 07:12:20PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > > /dev/sda1
> > > Apparently, not anymore.
> > > Grub is still version 0.97-41: no idea what's different.  What can I
> > > say...  a glitch in the matrix... a disturbance in the force...
> > Actually, grub-probe is provided by the grub-common package.
> >
> > > I guess you can close the bug.
> > I'd be more comfortable if you can confirm in which version of grub-common
> > you found the bug is fixed (so we can use versioned close).
> 
> My current grub-common version, which works, is still 1.96+20080704-2;
> which, annoyingly, is the same as the one I had when I experienced the
> segfault.

This is highly annoying indeed.  Maybe related to different udev version?

Regretably, if you can't find the reason we'll have to close this bug :-(

In any case, whenever you're reporting a segfault, always remember to include
the backtrace!

-- 
Robert Millan

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