Bug#668318: grub-common: grub-mkdevicemap takes hours because it reads a cciss device

[Attila Kinali]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.99-17
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

For some unknown reason, which is clearly beyond me, grub-mkdevicemap
decided that it is a good idea to read out the complete cciss device
which is
1) a 2TB raid
2) not mounted
3) contains two partitions, one with a test linux system on

The problem with this is, that the install takes hours (i'm not joking).
And killing grub-mkdevicema doesn't work, because the process locks up
in unterruptible state (D).

The only way around it is to reboot, which is kind of dangerouse
with only a half installed grub.

		Attila Kinali


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  gettext-base        0.18.1.1-5
ii  libc6               2.13-27
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.67-2
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1
ii  libfuse2            2.8.7-1
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.6.dfsg-2

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn  os-prober  <none>

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  desktop-base   <none>
pn  grub-emu       <none>
pn  multiboot-doc  <none>
pn  xorriso        <none>

-- no debconf information