Bug#542165: grub-common: grub-probe kind of mishandles dm-crypt partitions

2010-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
tags 542165 pending thanks On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 01:10:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: The attached patch detects the situation, prints a warning and avoids the problematic code parts. This allows package update and configuration generation to finish and makes the local admin aware that he

Bug#542165: grub-common: grub-probe kind of mishandles dm-crypt partitions

2010-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
tags #542165 patch thanks The attached patch detects the situation, prints a warning and avoids the problematic code parts. This allows package update and configuration generation to finish and makes the local admin aware that he needs to manually intervene. In the absence of a grub-probe which

Bug#542165: grub-common: grub-probe kind of mishandles dm-crypt partitions

2010-05-03 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 07:26:21PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Marc Haber wrote: I solved the issue by commenting out the stanza starting with Gettext variables and module in /etc/grub.d/00_header, but would like to have a possibility of grub handling my

Bug#542165: grub-common: grub-probe kind of mishandles dm-crypt partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, during the half year that this bug has been rotting away unanswered in the BTS, it has matured to be a showstopper. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:40:08AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: my /boot is on a crypted dm-crypt partition. I know I can't boot from there, but /boot is regularly unisoned to an

Bug#542165: grub-common: grub-probe kind of mishandles dm-crypt partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Marc Haber wrote: Hi, during the half year that this bug has been rotting away unanswered in the BTS, it has matured to be a showstopper. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:40:08AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: my /boot is on a crypted dm-crypt partition. I know I can't boot from there, but /boot

Bug#542165: grub-common: grub-probe kind of mishandles dm-crypt partitions

2009-08-18 Thread Marc Haber
Package: grub-common Version: 1.96+20090808-1 Severity: normal Hi, my /boot is on a crypted dm-crypt partition. I know I can't boot from there, but /boot is regularly unisoned to an USB stick which then _can_ boot. When I run update-grub on the crypted /boot, I get a number of grub-probe: