Bug#502333: grub-pc: Search uuid in LVM crashes the bootloader

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:35:55PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote:
> > There are two search lines in your grub.cfg, and the logs you provided 
> don't
> > make it clear which of them is causing the problem.
> > grubdbg-1.96%2B20080724-10.log refers to 249d254f-9ee3-4908-aec6-177 
> which
> > is neither of them, and grubdbg-1.96%2B20081201-1.log only has scrambled
> > output.
> I entered the search command manually. Could be that I mistyped something.

No.  It's a different one than what is in your grub.cfg.  Perhaps you
regenerated the filesystem, I don't know.  But you didn't tell us which
one.  There are _two_ of them.

> > Actually, it'd be good to know if the problem appears at all in grub-emu 
> or
> > not, too.
> I would expect it to. My guess is, that grub finds the journal volume, 
> thinks
> its ext2 (which it kind of is) and expects to find some things, which are 
> not there
> because it's not ext2, after all.

Sounds plausible.  If you can reproduce it in grub-emu, it'll be much simpler.
Then you will probably get a SIGSEV instead of a reboot.

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