Package: grub Version: 0.97-36 Severity: important
During the runing of the postinst script for a recent kernel upgrade, grub failed to find `/boot/boot/grub/device.map'. Instead it complained: grub-probe: error: Cannot open `/boot/grub/device.map' On a system with a separate /boot partition (such as this one), I would have thought that device.map should live in /boot/boot/grub along with menu.lst and friends. Downgrading to grub 0.97-35 did not help, but downgradingto grub 0.97-27 in stable did. Here is the output from the failed kernel postinst with grub 0.97-36 (note that grub install dir is correctly found at /boot/boot/grub, but that grub-probe looks for /boot/grub/device.map): % sudo aptitude install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following partially installed packages will be configured: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (2.6.24-6) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. Other valid candidates: mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.24-5 was configured last, according to dpkg) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.24-5 was configured last, according to dpkg) Running postinst hook script update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/boot/grub grub-probe: error: Cannot open `/boot/grub/device.map' User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1 dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (2.6.24-6) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. Other valid candidates: mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.24-5 was configured last, according to dpkg) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.24-5 was configured last, according to dpkg) Running postinst hook script update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/boot/grub grub-probe: error: Cannot open `/boot/grub/device.map' User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1 dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20080419-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand grub recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
