tags 239111 patch
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Hi,
Please could you try the attached patch, and confirm that it works? Thanks
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Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:16:03PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Yes, I've looked at the grub2 source and I'm much happier. It doesn't
look like a novice had written it, which is a major improvement. I'm
still curious WTH anybody would think the nested functions are a good
thing, though...
severity 239111 grave
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Robert Millan wrote:
The whole approach is wrong, so maybe it makes sense to avoid it, or maybe
it's too late for that, and we should issue a critical debconf warning when
XFS is detected.
I will have to think about it.
The problem is that Debian's patch to try
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:00:58PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:16:03PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Yes, I've looked at the grub2 source and I'm much happier. It doesn't
look like a novice had written it, which is a major improvement. I'm
still curious WTH anybody
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:15:52PM +, Robert McQueen wrote:
severity 239111 grave
thanks
Robert Millan wrote:
The whole approach is wrong, so maybe it makes sense to avoid it, or maybe
it's too late for that, and we should issue a critical debconf warning when
XFS is detected.
I
Robert Millan wrote:
Hi Rob,
Hi Robert,
You just convinced me that this is completely fucked up. This is not the
first time someone claims to have fixed this problem, only to discover that
it wasn't, and I'm not going to gamble with ioctls, freeze/unfreeze combos
or Linux version checks.
Rob,
Did you hit this problem when installing GRUB to a partition, or to the
whole disk?
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your
Robert Millan wrote:
Rob,
Did you hit this problem when installing GRUB to a partition, or to the
whole disk?
I was upgrading from etch to lenny on a box where / is XFS and /boot and
/var are on the same partition. GRUB is installed into the MBR. I know
you can't install bootloaders onto XFS
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:32:49PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
I (and upstream in general) believe that the only right way to rely on a
hardcoded list of blocks that live inside a filesystem is _not to_.
Grmf. I was making wrong assumptions. This is not about block lists
(I still think
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:57:55PM +, Robert McQueen wrote:
So no, it's nothing to do with where I'm trying to install GRUB to, the
problem is the Debian patch to grub-install did xfs_freeze on my root
filesystem and then did various crap including trying to write to the
log file (and
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:28:19PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
It's not the log file. Joeyh tried that (see the bug log).
I'm almost certain it's the fwrite() call in install_func. I could be
wrong, but I still don't see why we would want to use xfs_freeze anyway.
And if we _really_
Robert Millan wrote:
Grmf. I was making wrong assumptions. This is not about block lists
(I still think block lists suck, but let's be fair...):
...
So we freeze the filesystem and afterwards try to write to it. Not a
good idea...
Indeed not.
#239111 initial report claims GRUB hangs
Robert Millan wrote:
It would seem that running sync would suffice for that. Unfortunately, it
seems that:
- sync is not enough
(see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239111#53)
Correct. This is a property of XFS. As I said, it considers that putting
metadata into the
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:13:52PM +, Robert McQueen wrote:
- sync is not enough
(see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239111#53)
Correct. This is a property of XFS. As I said, it considers that putting
metadata into the journal, and knowing it's flushed there, to
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:57:44PM +, Robert McQueen wrote:
I didn't test that, I was basing on my experiences of installing GRUB
manually. I usually do:
mkdir /boot/grub
cp -a /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/* /boot/grub
vi /boot/grub/device.map
grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
#
severity 239111 important
clone 239111 -1
retitle -1 should refuse to install on XFS unless embedding can be used
reassign -1 grub2
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:25:28AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
After several hours of working through the source, I give up. It's a
total mess and I'd
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:26:48PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
severity 239111 important
clone 239111 -1
retitle -1 should refuse to install on XFS unless embedding can be used
reassign -1 grub2
thanks
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:25:28AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
After several hours of
Thanks to Rob McQueen for doing a lot of research into this for his
mail about this bug on 12 Dec 2008. Based on that mail, I've looked
through the code in an attempt to find a way to implement a reasonable
fix: using FIBMAP as he suggested.
After several hours of working through the source, I
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