Bug#484507: grub-pc postinst fails silently

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:04:54PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:29:05PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Package: grub-pc
> > Version: 1.96+20080601-2
> > Severity: serious
> 
> Are you using ext3?

  No, reiserfs for / and dm-crypt/lvm2/xfs for the rest.

> >     Setting up grub-pc (1.96+20080601-2) ...
> >     Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ...
> >     *** glibc detected *** /usr/sbin/grub-probe: realloc(): invalid next size: 0x0000000001bf83d0 ***
> 
> Can you check if reverting this commit:
> 
>   http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/grub2/fs/ext2.c?root=grub&r1=1.18&r2=1.19&view=patch
> 
> makes it work again?

  Well it didn't always fails, and I don't have the time to roll my own
grub2 package _and_ test it I'm sorry.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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