Bug#891773: Related bug #871229 (but it didn't break my system))

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

CC'ing Eric Snowberg who authored the patches.

On 03/01/2018 02:18 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> Thanks for the backtrace; that's very helpful.  This is a regression
> introduced by the sparc64 support patches introduced in #854568, and the
> latest patch there won't help.  Adrian, could you please look into this
> urgently?

Yes.

> To all those who have followed up to #871229 about this: it is not
> possible for the original report of #871229 to have been due to this
> same bug, as I only applied the patch in question in 2.02+dfsg1-2.

Indeed. The bug in #871229 is much older and unrelated to the sparc64
patches.

> Please send all followups related to NVME devices to #891773 *only*.
> I'm adjusting severities etc. accordingly, as it was never possible to
> get accurate information about the original report of #871229 (see
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871229#25).

It might be that this patch fixes it [1]. I can build a grub package
with the patch and provide it for testing purpose. Anyone who is
affected by the bug would be willing to test my packages?

Adrian

> [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=72b425b640f67ad7e6e0056a7a793bddc9997985

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