Bug#500482: Segmentation fault in grub-probe

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 27.10.2008, 10:13 +0100 schrieb Zrin Ziborski:

> I believe that if grub-probe segfaults or not depends on
> the data at the start of each partition it reads.
> 
> I've updated lenny now, I have grub-probe (GRUB) 1.96
> from grub-common 1.96+20080724-10
> 
> I am still able to reproduce the segfault.

>read(3, "version 2.02.35 (2008-04-15): Sat"..., 4096) = 4096
>close(3)                                = 0
>--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

2.02.35 looks like a lvm2 package version.

Did you try to compile your own grub2 packages like I already suggested?
This lvm circular metadata fix is not yet in Debian but will be in the
next uploaded. It has been already commited upstream and to our lenny
branch.

You can find here instructions how to compile:

http://wiki.debian.org/de/GRUB2/Anleitung/DebianPaketVonOriginalQuelltext

Feel free to ask if this isn't self-explanatory to you.

-- 
Felix Zielcke