On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:51:52PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
I suspect that the problem was actually a flaky cd-rw drive in /dev/hdc
which caused the open(/dev/hdc, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) call in
grub-mkdevicemap to hang.
GRUB should skip CD-ROM drives, as it doesn't support them yet. It
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:20:31AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
Previously, the upgrade was locking up when running grub-mkdevicemap
which was calling:
open(/dev/hdc, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE
That sounds unlikely; it would mean this is a bug in Linux. Are you sure it
was locked in that call,
Robert Millan wrote, on 05/01/08 22:52:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:20:31AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
Previously, the upgrade was locking up when running grub-mkdevicemap
which was calling:
open(/dev/hdc, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE
That sounds unlikely; it would mean this is a bug in Linux.
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:49:29PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
Robert Millan wrote, on 05/01/08 22:52:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:20:31AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
Previously, the upgrade was locking up when running grub-mkdevicemap
which was calling:
open(/dev/hdc,
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:21:18AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
Robert Millan wrote, on 06/01/08 02:48:
...
You can use gdb to determine. Try building a debug grub-mkdevicemap
(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip,noopt,debug), run it with gdb and interrupt it
where it has hung, then obtain a
Robert Millan wrote, on 06/01/08 02:48:
...
You can use gdb to determine. Try building a debug grub-mkdevicemap
(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip,noopt,debug), run it with gdb and interrupt it
where it has hung, then obtain a backtrace (bt).
If you could give me the precise debuild or
Robert Millan wrote, on 06/01/08 11:50:
...
cd grub2-x
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip,noopt,debug dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc
Thanks, am building it now.
Even after scanning through /usr/share/doc/grub-pc including the
changelog and reading the last few months of the grub-devel
Previously, the upgrade was locking up when running grub-mkdevicemap
which was calling:
open(/dev/hdc, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE
After a reboot, grub-pc upgraded fine.
Arthur.
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