Bug#564928: Newer grub fails with missing symbols at boot time

[Vincent Fourmond]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98~20100110-1
Severity: grave

  Hello,

  I've upgraded to the latest grub yesterday, and today, the computer
refused to boot with grub complaining about "missing symbols" (I don't
remember which one), and was going into what seemed to be a 'rescue'
mode. No help, no way to boot... The only way was to boot using a
rescue disk, and install the 1.98~20100107-1 version. (which is still
installed, hence the dependency on -common below).

  I'm ready to give more information should you need more.

  Cheers,

	Vincent

PS: setting to grave as it left me with a completely unbootable
machine



-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/af9f145d-7669-438b-8099-1c71120a8eec / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /home ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ajcfafge2 /RAID ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ajcfafge2 /var/cache ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ajcfafge2 /chroots ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/hda
(hd1)	/dev/hdb
(hd2)	/dev/sda
(hd3)	/dev/sdb
*********************** 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 ###
set default=0
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,5)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set af9f145d-7669-438b-8099-1c71120a8eec
if loadfont /usr/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
set locale_dir=/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,5)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set af9f145d-7669-438b-8099-1c71120a8eec
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 root=UUID=af9f145d-7669-438b-8099-1c71120a8eec ro  
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-amd64
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,5)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set af9f145d-7669-438b-8099-1c71120a8eec
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 root=UUID=af9f145d-7669-438b-8099-1c71120a8eec ro single 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-amd64
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86 ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86)" {
	linux16	/boot/memtest86.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86 ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,5)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set af9f145d-7669-438b-8099-1c71120a8eec
	linux16	/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,5)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set af9f145d-7669-438b-8099-1c71120a8eec
	linux16	/boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### 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: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.28          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.98~20100107-1 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:
pn  desktop-base                  <none>     (no description available)

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