Bug#544377: closed by Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> (Re: Bug#544377: grub-common: broke grub1 install?)

[Andres Salomon]

reopen 544377
severity 544377 critical
thanks

First off, this bug should *not* be closed.  It's great that you think
this is impossible, but I can assure you that it happened.  Would you like
to see my dpkg logs?  I can also *guarantee* you that I did not do
anything that would touch grub on the MBR.  Perhaps another package (kernel?
initramfs-tools?) managed to break something during the upgrade, but it's
grub that has control of the MBR.

Here you can see on the 19th when I upgraded grub-legacy:

2009-08-19 09:38:14 upgrade grub-legacy 0.97-55 0.97-56
2009-08-19 09:38:14 status half-configured grub-legacy 0.97-55
2009-08-19 09:38:14 status unpacked grub-legacy 0.97-55
2009-08-19 09:38:14 status half-installed grub-legacy 0.97-55
2009-08-19 09:38:14 status half-installed grub-legacy 0.97-55
2009-08-19 09:38:14 status half-installed grub-legacy 0.97-55
2009-08-19 09:38:14 status unpacked grub-legacy 0.97-56
2009-08-19 09:38:14 status unpacked grub-legacy 0.97-56

Here's when I previously rebooted the machine:

Aug 20 00:19:01 mycelium kernel: [ 3560.225453] fuse exit
Aug 20 00:19:03 mycelium kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Aug 20 00:19:36 mycelium kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Aug 20 00:19:36 mycelium kernel: [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Aug 20 00:19:36 mycelium kernel: [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Aug 20 00:19:36 mycelium kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31-rc6 (dilinger at dev) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) ) #8 SMP Thu Aug 20 00:11:28 EDT 2009
Aug 20 00:19:36 mycelium kernel: [    0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:

And here's the grub-common upgrade:

2009-08-30 19:27:24 upgrade grub-common 1.96+20090826-3 1.97~beta1-1
2009-08-30 19:27:24 status half-configured grub-common 1.96+20090826-3
2009-08-30 19:27:24 status unpacked grub-common 1.96+20090826-3
2009-08-30 19:27:24 status half-installed grub-common 1.96+20090826-3
2009-08-30 19:27:24 status half-installed grub-common 1.96+20090826-3
2009-08-30 19:27:24 status half-installed grub-common 1.96+20090826-3
2009-08-30 19:27:24 status unpacked grub-common 1.97~beta1-1
2009-08-30 19:27:24 status unpacked grub-common 1.97~beta1-1



Secondly, regardless of whether GRUB1 is legacy and not used any more,
breaking user's machines is *not* acceptable.





On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:18:20 +0000
owner at bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote:

> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the grub-common package:
> 
> #544377: grub-common: broke grub1 install?
> 
> It has been closed by Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Felix Zielcke
> <fzielcke at z-51.de> by replying to this email
>
>