Bug#584199: update-grub cannot find video.lst and locales

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:09:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:05:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Do you deliberately have grub-pc/install_devices set to empty, or is
> > that accidental?
>
> That's deliberate. My /boot is an encrypted LV, and the system cannot
> boot from there. So it's useless to have grub on the hard disk. I
> have a bootable USB stick which is regularly rsynced to the encrypted
> /boot manually. I have /boot on the disk so that I can do updates of
> the system without having the stick mounted.
>
> I take care of having the USB stick bootable myself. A lot of grub's
> automatisms do handle this situation rather badly.

In that case right now you may be doomed to occasionally have problems
like this; the core image and grub.cfg must not be too far out of sync.
I assume you're taking explicit care to run grub-install every now and
again.

(I think it's reasonable to try to make update-grub not fail hard if the
administrator is in the habit of running grub-install at some point
shortly after update-grub, though; the safety check I added for
/boot/grub/locale was in that spirit.)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]