Bug#586449: unbootable system after grub-pc upgrade (unaligned pointer) locales problem

[André Nunes]

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Hi,

I am sorry but I won't be able to supply any further intel on this bug,
since back then I was forced to reinstall my DebianOS.

All I can tell you now is that I was using LVM but didn't have any
snapshots at the time. Also, after the first reinstall and update my
system got the same bug again, but after a second reinstall the bug
didn't come up. I don't know if in between the days of the first and
the second reinstall there was some patch or update to grub, but
somehow the system was able to boot without any problem.

As far as I know my LVM does not have any special feature besides
dm-crypt LUKS encryption.

If it would help you, I can send you the first 64k of the device (my
current partition scheme is the same as before), but I don't know how
to log this info.

Regards,

On 11/16/2010 03:35 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 06/19/2010 06:33 PM, Andre Nunes Batista wrote:
>> Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100617-1 Severity: grave Tags:
>> upstream Justification: renders package unusable
>>
>>
>> Hi, after the last grub-pc and grub-common update my system was
>> rendered unbootable. I originaly thought I had te same problem as
>> described by other people on bug #586143, however I couldn't
>> solve my problem following the same steps as others.
>> (grub-install and so)
>>
>>
> Do you have any snapshots? If so the bug should already be fixed.
> Could you retest? If bug persists can you supply the output of:
> vgdisplay lvdisplay pvdisplay and tell if your LVM is supposed to
> have any non-standard property. Could you also send first 64K of a
> device containing LVM?
>
>> When I try dpkg-reconfigure I get a lot of messages regarding
>> locales unset and the need to manually give --modules.
>>
>> -- Package-specific info:
>>
>> *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/scd0 /cdrom
>> iso9660 ro 0 0 /dev/tagesuhu/root / ext2 rw,errors=continue 0 0
>> *********************** END /proc/mounts
>>
>> *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0)
>> /dev/sda *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map
>>
>> -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers
>> unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
>> 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486 Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
>> (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such
>> file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default
>> locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to
>> default locale: No such file or directory ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell:
>> /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
>> Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii debconf
>> [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management
>> sy ii grub-common 1.98+20100617-1 GRand Unified
>> Bootloader, version ii libc6 2.11.2-1
>> Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdevmapper1.02.1
>> 2:1.02.48-2 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: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE =
>> "en", LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "C.UTF-8" are supported and
>> installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the
>> standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default
>> locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES
>> to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set
>> LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
>> grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline: * grub2/linux_cmdline:
>> grub-pc/install_devices_empty: false *
>> grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true grub-pc/kopt_extracted:
>> true * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sda
>> grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
>> grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
>> grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet
>> grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true
>>
>>
>>
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