Bug#568001: grub-pc: grub locks up the machine

Lieven Marchand mal at wyrd.be
Mon Feb 1 18:31:59 UTC 2010


Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98~20100128-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

After choosing the chain load grub2 option in the old grub menu the grub2 screen 
loads correctly. When I choose a kernel to load, the system locks up completely 
and does not respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del. The messages loading kernel .... and 
loading initrd ... appear and then in the upper right corner of the grub2 
screen a horizontal line is drawn. Is there a way to make grub2 more verbose?


-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/mapper/Debian-root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/Debian-home /home ext3 rw,relatime,resuid=1000,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/mapper/Debian-tmp /tmp ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/mapper/Debian-usr /usr ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/mapper/Debian-var /var ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/mapper/a /home/mal/a ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/sde1 /boot ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdf2 /home/mal/b ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/sdh1 /mnt/usb-disk ext2 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
(hd1)	/dev/sdb
(hd2)	/dev/sdc
(hd3)	/dev/sdd
(hd4)	/dev/sde
(hd5)	/dev/sdf
(hd6)	/dev/sdg
(hd7)	/dev/sdh
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
  set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
  if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
    saved_entry=${chosen}
    save_env saved_entry
  fi
}
insmod raid
insmod mdraid
insmod lvm
insmod ext2
set root=(Debian-usr)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set f7d61e25-fbc5-4c29-b16d-a421c30b1c19
if loadfont /share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
    # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
    # understand terminal_output
    terminal gfxterm
  fi
fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd4,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c9bc9684-470c-4dec-831a-ddc34d79efe7
set locale_dir=($root)/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod ext2
set root=(hd4,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c9bc9684-470c-4dec-831a-ddc34d79efe7
insmod png
if background_image /grub/moreblue-orbit-grub.png ; then
  set color_normal=black/black
  set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686" {
	set gfxpayload=keep
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd4,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c9bc9684-470c-4dec-831a-ddc34d79efe7
	echo	Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 ...
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 root=/dev/mapper/Debian-root ro  quiet
	echo	Loading initial ramdisk ...
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (recovery mode)" {
	set gfxpayload=keep
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd4,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c9bc9684-470c-4dec-831a-ddc34d79efe7
	echo	Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 ...
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 root=/dev/mapper/Debian-root ro single 
	echo	Loading initial ramdisk ...
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.31-1-686" {
	set gfxpayload=keep
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd4,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c9bc9684-470c-4dec-831a-ddc34d79efe7
	echo	Loading Linux 2.6.31-1-686 ...
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-686 root=/dev/mapper/Debian-root ro  quiet
	echo	Loading initial ramdisk ...
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.31-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (recovery mode)" {
	set gfxpayload=keep
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd4,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c9bc9684-470c-4dec-831a-ddc34d79efe7
	echo	Loading Linux 2.6.31-1-686 ...
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-686 root=/dev/mapper/Debian-root ro single 
	echo	Loading initial ramdisk ...
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.31-1-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.28          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.98~20100128-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-5        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  ucf                      3.0025          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto

-- debconf information:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/kopt_extracted: true
  grub-pc/install_devices:
  grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet





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