Bug#558312: error: grub_gettext not found

[Michael Biebl]

Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 22:51 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> tags 558312 -unreproducible
>> thanks
>>
>> Fernando M. Maresca wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:00:38PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>>>> I don't think we have any routine in our code that could possibly
>> construct
>>>> that error string.  Could you re-check that this is *exactly* what
>> it is
>>>> printing?
>>> Sorry.
>>> The exact message is:
>>> error: the symbol ``grub_gettext'' not found
>>>
>>> It's also displayed on grub_rescue> mode when trying to insmod
>>> normal.mod or configfile.mod.
>>>
>>> My locale is es_AR.UTF-8.
>> I can reproduce the problem, I get the exact same error message and
>> boot failure.
> 
> As Robert just sent a few minutes ago in his -done mail, the problem is
> that grub-install was run on a device where you currently don't boot
> from.
> That can happen if you choose only one device instead of all in the
> grub-pc/install_devices debconf prompt and then on this package upgrade
> the Linux kernel somehow decides to name the devices differently then
> last time.
> The only safe way currently is to just choose all devices in that
> debconf prompt.
> Hopefully we get to implement some /dev/disk/by-{id,uuid} for that one,
> so it's consistent.

Well, this does not seem to apply to me.
I have a single / partition, where I booted my Debian from, did a grub update
and on the next boot grub was broken.
I had no debconf prompt, no booting from a separate partition, any of this.

Cheers,
Michael


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