Bug#627587: grub-pc: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'.

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:03:30AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 28, Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> wrote:
> > I don't really know enough about when this bug was introduced in udev,
> > really, or whether it's always been there.  Anyway, the Breaks is in
> > Debian grub2 bzr now, for the next upload.
> 
> I do not know what causes this bug, but I am always unhappy with
> packages forcing udev upgrades unless there is a very good reason for it
> since udev itself tends to have many versioned dependencies/breaks as
> well and this may cause a long chain of upgrades.

While I sympathise, the problem at the head of this bug seems like a
good reason.  I'm not keen on unpicking the GRUB changes that caused it
to care about this (it was probably the mountinfo parsing, and that was
introduced for good reasons), and I'm not keen on adding even more
maintainer script complication to grub-pc.  If you have a better
suggestion, I'm all ears.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]