Bug#558312: error: grub_gettext not found

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 23:04 +0100 schrieb 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.

What does `echo GET grub-pc/install_devices | debconf-communicate' show?

I just tried it out in a vm.
Installed squeeze beta3-1 where grub-pc/install_devices is not set at
all. Then ran grub-install /dev/sda. Rebooted. Then upgraded to current
sid version. Not running grub-install and neither it was ran by the
postinst.
And a reboot worked still fine.

> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer
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