Bug#708123: [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)
Control: retitle -1 [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken) Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 unreproducible On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 01:00:10PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > control: retitle -1 add news item about end-of-life for old RAID format > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Gleb Golubitsky wrote: > > On Friday, December 06, 2013 12:28:40 PM Colin Watson wrote: > >> Gleb, if you can still reproduce this, could you please run this command > > > > I recently reinstalled my Debian (moved i386 -> amd64) and the bug is not > > reproduced any more. Right before that i found out that 'delay' parameter > > helped me so i suppose the key of problem here is a long time needed by > > kernel > > (or somewhat else?) to detect my RAID. > > > > Dunno, maybe the bug should be closed as unreproducible. > > This is an issue only with RAID arrays using a very old format, which > it looks like grub now no longer supports. This, I think, can be > corrected by writing a news entry about that so users will see the > info during an upgrade. No, I do not believe it is intentional that GRUB no longer supports this old format; furthermore, as I said in message #20 on this bug, a simple test with the 0.90 format works fine for me. Thus, not only do we not know exactly what we would write in such a NEWS entry, but it would probably be an inappropriate fix anyway. While I agree that this is a pretty nasty bug if you encounter it, I really need a way to reproduce this in order to fix it; ideally I'd be able to reproduce it in an emulated system so that I can iterate fixes quickly. Perhaps somebody who hasn't made the bug go away on their system could help with this? In the meantime, I don't think it's any more release-critical than any other isolated problem with the boot loader, so I'm downgrading for now to allow 2.00 into testing as on the whole it should be a very significant improvement over 1.99. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Processed: Re: Bug#708123: [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)
Processing control commands: > retitle -1 [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, > boot is broken) Bug #708123 [grub-pc] add news item about end-of-life for old RAID format Changed Bug title to '[grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)' from 'add news item about end-of-life for old RAID format' > severity -1 important Bug #708123 [grub-pc] [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken) Severity set to 'important' from 'critical' > tag -1 unreproducible Bug #708123 [grub-pc] [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken) Added tag(s) unreproducible. -- 708123: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708123 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Processed: Re: Bug#708123: [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)
Processing control commands: > retitle -1 add news item about end-of-life for old RAID format Bug #708123 [grub-pc] [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken) Changed Bug title to 'add news item about end-of-life for old RAID format' from '[grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)' -- 708123: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708123 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#708123: [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)
control: retitle -1 add news item about end-of-life for old RAID format On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Gleb Golubitsky wrote: > Hey, > > On Friday, December 06, 2013 12:28:40 PM Colin Watson wrote: >> Gleb, if you can still reproduce this, could you please run this command > > I recently reinstalled my Debian (moved i386 -> amd64) and the bug is not > reproduced any more. Right before that i found out that 'delay' parameter > helped me so i suppose the key of problem here is a long time needed by kernel > (or somewhat else?) to detect my RAID. > > Dunno, maybe the bug should be closed as unreproducible. This is an issue only with RAID arrays using a very old format, which it looks like grub now no longer supports. This, I think, can be corrected by writing a news entry about that so users will see the info during an upgrade. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#708123: [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)
Hey, On Friday, December 06, 2013 12:28:40 PM Colin Watson wrote: > Gleb, if you can still reproduce this, could you please run this command I recently reinstalled my Debian (moved i386 -> amd64) and the bug is not reproduced any more. Right before that i found out that 'delay' parameter helped me so i suppose the key of problem here is a long time needed by kernel (or somewhat else?) to detect my RAID. Dunno, maybe the bug should be closed as unreproducible. -- WBR, Gleb Golubitsky AKA Sectoid Jabber ID: sect...@gnolltech.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#708123: [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:25:09PM +0300, Gleb Golubitsky wrote: > I have my system installed on RAID 1 (fakeraid). After upgrading > 1.99-27.1 -> 2.00-14 it was impossible to boot system. Hi, I'm very sorry for my long delay in replying to this bug. Jacob (CCed) reports that rebuilding the array with a modern metadata format works better. However, I tried a simple test where I installed wheezy in a two-disk VM with the installer hacked to produce the 0.90 format and then upgraded the installed grub2 binary packages 2.00-14, and I was unable to reproduce this bug; so unfortunately it doesn't seem as simple as the 0.90 support being broken. Gleb, if you can still reproduce this, could you please run this command as root with 2.00-* (tell me which version you used) and post the output: grub-probe -vv -t fs /boot/grub It should be reasonably safe to upgrade to 2.00-*, run this, and then downgrade back to 1.99-* before the next reboot. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#708123: [grub-pc] grub2 (2.00-14) fails to install on RAID arrays (rescue, boot is broken)
Package: grub-pc
Version: 2.00-14
Severity: critical
--- Please enter the report below this line. ---
I have my system
installed on RAID 1 (fakeraid). After upgrading 1.99-27.1 -> 2.00-14 it was
impossible to boot system.
Workaround for those who met this: boot from livecd, chroot, downgrade grub to
1.99-27.1 (from Wheezy repo), manually grub-install & update-grub2.
Attempt to install grub 2.00-14 manually ---
root@dagon:~# grub-install
/dev/mapper/isw_hbghdbjgf_SYSTEM
Path `/boot/grub' is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible.
Aborting.
--- Attempt to update-grub2 ---
root@dagon:~# update-grub2
Generating grub.cfg ...
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
Found background image: .background_cache.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8-1-686-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8-1-686-pae
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
Found memtest86+ multiboot image: /memtest86+_multiboot.bin
File descriptor 8 (pipe:[34]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 29937:
/bin/sh
No volume groups found
grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/os-prober/mount': Device or resource busy
Found Debian GNU/Linux (jessie/sid) on /dev/mapper/isw_hbghdbjgf_SYSTEM5
done
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-686-pae
Debian Release: jessie/sid
500 unstablepackages.gnolltech.org
500 unstabledebian.gnolltech.org
500 stable debian.gnolltech.org
500 stable deb.opera.com
500 squeeze deb.playonlinux.com
100 squeeze-backports backports.debian.org
1 experimentaldebian.gnolltech.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends(Version) | Installed
-+-
debconf(>= 0.5) | 1.5.50
OR debconf-2.0 |
grub-common | 2.00-14
grub2-common (= 2.00-14) | 2.00-14
grub-pc-bin (= 2.00-14) | 2.00-14
ucf | 3.0025+nmu3
Package's Recommends field is empty.
Package's Suggests field is empty.
--- Output from package bug script ---
*** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/dm-3 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/isw_hbghdbjgf_SYSTEM1 /boot ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue 0 0
/dev/mapper/isw_hbghdbjgf_SYSTEM6 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/isw_hbghdbjgf_SYSTEM6 /var/lib/mysql ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered
0 0
*** END /proc/mounts
*** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31500341AS_9VS3ZFD8
(hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31500341AS_9VS3ZVDE
(hd2) /dev/mapper/isw_hbghdbjgf_SYSTEM
*** END /boot/grub/device.map
*** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s /grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ x"" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
if [ "" ]; then
set saved_entry=""
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "" ]; then
saved_entry=""
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function load_video {
if [ x = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
else
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
fi
}
if loadfont unicode ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
set locale_dir=/locale
set lang=ru_UA
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set root='hd2'
insmod png
if background_image /grub/.background_cache.png; then
set color_normal=white/black
set color_highlight=black/white
else
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --
class os 'gnulinux-simple-/dev/mapper/isw_hbghdbjgf_SYSTEM5' {
load_video
insmod gzio
echo'Loading Linux 3.8-1-686-pae ...'
linux /vmlinuz-3.8-1-686-pae root=/dev/mapper/isw_hbghdbjgf_SYSTEM5
ro
quiet
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /initrd.img-3.8-1-686-pae
}
submenu 'Advance
