Bug#1003008: Error 134633601: Error while parsing number"

[Colin Watson]

Control: severity -1 critical

On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 09:14:54PM +0300, Eugene Berdnikov wrote:
>  After upgrade grub-legacy from 0.97-78 to 0.97-79 installation fails
>  with message "Error 134633601: Error while parsing number":
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x8065e03
> grub> setup (hd0)
> setup (hd0)
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>  Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
>  Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
>  Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
>  Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd-141250989)"... failed (this is not fatal)
>  Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd-141250989,-"... failed (this is not fatal)
>  Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd-141250989) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst "... failed
> 
> Error 134633601: Error while parsing number
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  Observed on all updated hosts (about ten in my own). Rollback to 0.97-78
>  resolves the problem (with the same config files).

Ugh, sorry about this.  I didn't actually change any patches against the
upstream code in 0.97-79, so this must have been broken by the mere act
of rebuilding it, I think.  I'll see if I can construct a suitable test
environment.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]