Bug#593652: grub-common: grub-probe still segfaults with 1.98+20100804-6

[Martin Schitter]

Am 2010-10-30 22:00, schrieb Vincent Danjean:
> On 28/10/2010 15:44, Robert Millan wrote:
>> Have you tested this with the version in Debian? Is it known to
>> work with 1.x and not cause regression with 0.9?

it works fine in my (version 1.0) setup but it couldn't test it in all 
the the other possible configurations...

>> Please let me know, I'll try to get it in squeeze when this is
>> confirmed.

> I'm sure that the current grub2 in Debian is a regression in comparison
> with some previous versions. Robert, I really think that a patch for this
> bug should be included in squeeze.A raid setup with spare disks was
 > working before. Since a few versions of grub2, it is broken. There is
 > a patch that seems to fix this bug and the patch comes from upstream.
 > You should apply it to the grub2 package and upload it to unstable.

i think, robert was just asking for some confirmation an practical 
testing in the context of affected machines.

but you right -- we should use the given solution simply as one step 
forward to make grub-probe work again.

martin