Bug#547649: grub-pc postinst exit status 128

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 23:40 +0200 schrieb Arno Schuring:
> Felix Zielcke wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > And you added the x to the shebang of grub-pc.postinst?
> > Maybe also add it in grub-pc.config.
> > I only get the above output if I run it with `bash
> > -x .../grub-pc.postinst' without adding a x in the shebang.
> > 
> 
> With added -x in /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.config I get:

> 
> It seems something goes wrong when parsing the kopt line. My line is:
> # kopt=root=UUID=6388def3-b3cd-4785-88c3-6b1ffbed6a9b ro selinux=1
> enforcing=0
> 
> When I remove both SELinux arguments, the command no longer fails.

Yes. This should fix it. Seems like it was pure luck that it worked for
others.

--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.config	2009-09-12 15:48:23.000000000 +0200
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.config.new	2009-09-22 10:40:03.717122335 +0200
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
       db_get grub-pc/kopt_extracted || true
       # this check ensures we only do this once
       if [ "$RET" = "false" ] ; then
-        kopt=`sed -ne "s/^# kopt=//p" /boot/grub/menu.lst | tr -s " " "\n" | grep -vx "\(ro\|root=[^ ]*\)"` || true
+        kopt=`sed -ne "s/^# kopt=//p" /boot/grub/menu.lst | tr -s " " "\n" | grep -vx "\(ro\|root=[^ ]*\)" | paste -s -d ' '` || true
         db_set grub2/linux_cmdline "${kopt}" || true
         db_set grub-pc/kopt_extracted true || true
         if [ "${kopt}" = "" ] ; then


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Felix Zielcke
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