Bug#558312: grub_gettext not found

[Dmitry Borodaenko]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> Did you really test this correctly?

This is my production laptop, so I stopped testing this as soon as I got
it working and I'm not eager to risk bricking it again. At least, not
until next weekend :)

> I can't imagine the /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ provided by the memtest86+
> package causes this.
> As i already said in the report (though to someone else) the only reason
> for that should be when the embed core.img is out of sync
> with /boot/grub
> Which only happens if grub-install gets run on a disk device where your
> BIOS isn't booting from.
> And that can happen because sometimes the kernel just thinks it's a good
> idea to renumber them and so the stored device in the
> grub-pc/install_devices debconf prompt is wrong.

I don't see enough evidence to support that conclusion, quite the
contrary. Both Sebastian's and my machine only have a single hard drive
(/dev/hda in his case and /dev/sda in mine), so there's no other device
for the kernel to get confused about. Having seen your comments about
the debconf install_devices option I checked that, and it did refer to
/dev/sda. Also, note how re-configuring grub-pc didn't help Sebastian,
while removing memtest86+ did.

Did you actually try and fail to reproduce this bug with grub-pc
1.97+20091125-1 and memtest86+ 4.00-2 on unstable? If yes, then it might
make sense to see what was your test setup and how it differs from what
my and Sebastian's machines have in common.

Output of mount on my machine:

/dev/mapper/root on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /usr type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
/dev/sda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=512m)
tmpfs on /home/angdraug/tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=512m)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/c type ntfs (ro,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,nls=utf8)
/dev/sda7 on /mnt/d type vfat
(rw,noexec,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,iocharset=utf8,showexec)
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

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Dmitry Borodaenko