Bug#584144: Package: grub-pc 1.98+20100527-2

[Craigevil]

Package: grub-pc
Version 1.98+20100527-2 0
libc6 Version: 2.11.1-2
Kernel 2.6.32-5-686


Setting up grub-common (1.98+20100527-2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ...
Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100527-2) ...
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found
/proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found


the /proc/devices: line goes on for 2 or 3 minutes.

if you reboot after upgrading grub-pc you get:

kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
[ 5.374816] Kernel panic - no syncing: Attempted to kill init!



-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/5603c42b-
2d73-4b60-a954-ad232cf5c0de / ext3
rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/disk2 ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/disk0 vfat
rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=lower,quiet,errors=remount-ro
0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)    /dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 30 12:04:26 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Had to downgrade to testing version in order to be able to boot.
Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.32     Debian configuration management
sy
ii  grub-common                   1.98-1     GRand Unified Bootloader,
version
ii  libc6                         2.11.1-2   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:
* grub-pc/linux_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sda
  grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet nomodeset

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: missing file /usr/bin/grub-mkimage (from grub-pc package)
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