Bug#495949: grub-common: grub-probe segfaults

Felix Zielcke fzielcke at z-51.de
Fri Jul 24 15:28:37 UTC 2009


Am Donnerstag, den 21.08.2008, 16:48 +0200 schrieb Jean-Luc Coulon
(f5ibh):
> Hi,
> 
> While using update-grub in the kernel update, an error 130 was
> reported.
> It appears that there is a segfault in grub-probe.
> 
> ------>8---------------------------------------------------------
> [jean-luc at tangerine] % sudo dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-k8-3 (20080820) ...
> Running depmod.
> Finding valid ramdisk creators.
> Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
> cryptsetup: WARNING: found more than one resume device candidate:
>                      /dev/mapper/vg0-swap_lv
>                      swap:/dev/mapper/vg0-swap_lv
> Running postinst hook script update-grub.
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> grub-probe[8856]: segfault at ffffffff00000003 ip 405881 sp
> 7fff0fa14130 error 4
> in grub-probe[400000+21000]
> User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 139
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-k8-3 (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  linux-image-2.6.26-k8-3
> ------>8---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> System is X86_64.
> /boot is ext3 over a raid1.
> The other parts of the system are xfs over lvm over raid1.
> 
> I've got older versions to test.
> These version works on the system:
> 1.96+20080413-1
> 1.96+20080426-1
> 1.96+20080429-1
> 
> These don't:
> 1.96+20080724-7
> 1.96+20080724-8
> 
> But 1.96+20080724-7 has been updated on the system on august, 11th
> without any
> problem since this update.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jean-Luc 

Hi Jean-Luc,

did this ever happen again to you?

-- 
Felix Zielcke






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