Bug#584250: grub-pc: Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.

Anders Lagerås anders.lageras at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 16:52:29 UTC 2010


Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100527-2
Severity: important

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When installing grub-pc:
Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100527-2) ...
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


- -- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394 / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sda9 /home reiserfs rw,nodev,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sda7 /tmp xfs rw,nodev,noatime,attr2,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda8 /usr reiserfs rw,nodev,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sda6 /var reiserfs rw,nodev,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1 xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb8 /mnt/part2 xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb9 /mnt/part3 reiserfs rw,nodev,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/c fuseblk rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sdc7 /mnt/d fuseblk rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sdc8 /mnt/e fuseblk rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sdb9 /emul reiserfs rw,nodev,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sdb9 /opt reiserfs rw,nodev,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sdb9 /selinux reiserfs rw,nodev,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sdb9 /srv reiserfs rw,nodev,noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1/root/Ebooks xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1/root/Media/Midi xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1/root/Media/Mp3 xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1/root/Media/New xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1/root/Media/Wave xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1/root/Media/Vcd xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1/root/Program xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/part1/root/Upload xfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,noquota 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
(hd1)	/dev/sdb
(hd2)	/dev/sdc
*********************** 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 msdos
insmod reiserfs
set root='(hd0,8)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 291a2064-9e35-4ece-986e-ce6d848a7ee6
if loadfont /share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
fi
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
  # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
  # understand terminal_output
  terminal gfxterm
fi
insmod msdos
insmod reiserfs
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod msdos
insmod reiserfs
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394
insmod png
if background_image /boot/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 2.6.32-5-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
	insmod msdos
	insmod reiserfs
	set root='(hd0,1)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394
	echo	'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 ...'
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=UUID=6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394 ro  quiet
	echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
}
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
	insmod msdos
	insmod reiserfs
	set root='(hd0,1)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394
	echo	'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 ...'
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=UUID=6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394 ro single 
	echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
}
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
	insmod msdos
	insmod reiserfs
	set root='(hd0,1)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394
	echo	'Loading Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64 ...'
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-4-amd64 root=UUID=6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394 ro  quiet
	echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-4-amd64
}
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
	insmod msdos
	insmod reiserfs
	set root='(hd0,1)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394
	echo	'Loading Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64 ...'
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-4-amd64 root=UUID=6a1a63e9-95a5-4c19-8d9a-16e94c6cd394 ro single 
	echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-4-amd64
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on /dev/sdc1)" {
	insmod msdos
	insmod ntfs
	set root='(hd2,1)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set b0783d7a783d4100
	drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
	chainloader +1
}
### 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
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.32          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.98+20100527-2 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.11.1-2        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1       2:1.02.47-1     The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
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

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