Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Steve, I am sorry for the late reply, as I was on vacation. Am 31.07.20 um 15:22 schrieb Steve McIntyre: On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 06:39:20AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 31.07.20 um 06:30 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 30.07.20 um 23:54 schrieb Paul Menzel: Package: grub-pc Version: 2.04-9

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-09 Thread Karl Schmidt
Triggered this with an apt upgrade dist-upgrade APT::Default-Release "buster"; grub-pc 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2 ,.,. This system had mirrored drives - Had to boot off a thumbdrive - enter rescue - when it asked for the boot drive - had to tell it to build raid - then select the raid (

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
>From conversation in IRC: 1. If the device(s) mentioned in grub-pc/install_devices multiselect don't exist when grub-install is run, it should stop and warn the user that there might be a problem DSA have this on a VM, for example: grub-pc grub-pc/install_devices

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Dropping the CC to Chad here ] On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:52:41PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> * Do we need to scan? if grub is installed and doing an upgrade and >>there is only one disk of an appropriate type (BIOS with

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:52:41PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > * Do we need to scan? if grub is installed and doing an upgrade and >there is only one disk of an appropriate type (BIOS with DOS, or >UEFI with GPT), then always install there? Possibly. I'd still be inclined to have a

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:49:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: ... >It looks like the base VM image provided by bento/debian-10 hardcodes >some details of how it was built that don't carry over to other systems >booting the same image, and this causes problems. > >debian/buster64 has a similar

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:32:33PM +0200, Miklos Quartus wrote: > I am reporting this bug here Please could you file this as a *new* bug report, *not* as a followup to #966575 which I would much rather keep for just the more common BIOS case? Ideally you would do this by typing "reportbug

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread cacatoes
Hello, My case was indeed a disk switch from USB to internal. I probably had invoked directly grub-install (dunno if it'd make sense to warn about the mismatch with debconf there?), now I know I should rather use dpkg-reconfigure instead. # debconf-get-selections |grep 'grub-pc/install_devices'

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-07-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:23:30AM +0200, MichaIng wrote: > we face the same issue whenever a ready-to-run image has been created and > booted from a different device. > > From what we found, the Debian installer (or the grub install/config > scripts) stores the hardware ID of the drive to

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-07-31 Thread Chad Phillips
This bug appears to affect a standard Vagrant install of Debian Buster as well. After booting, upgrading, and rebooting, I'm faced with the error. The Vagrant base box is a fairly common one: https://app.vagrantup.com/bento/boxes/debian-10 I'm guessing this is a fairly standard disk layout in

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi John, On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 09:29:43AM +0100, John Lines wrote: >I have the same error, on a DNUK Workstar 700, dating back to 2014, so >upgraded from squeeze on up to buster.It is possible this legacy which >has resulted in something unusual in the grub configuration. > >I upgraded grub

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Paul, On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 06:39:20AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: >Am 31.07.20 um 06:30 schrieb Paul Menzel: > >> Am 30.07.20 um 23:54 schrieb Paul Menzel: >> > Package: grub-pc >> > Version: 2.04-9 >> > Severity: grave >> >> > On a Acer TravelMate 5735Z with Debian Sid/unstable, upgrading

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found

2020-07-31 Thread John Lines
I have the same error, on a DNUK Workstar 700, dating back to 2014, so upgraded from squeeze on up to buster.It is possible this legacy which has resulted in something unusual in the grub configuration. I upgraded grub yesterday, and am working on recovering now. Posting from another system.

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-07-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Debian folks, Am 31.07.20 um 06:30 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 30.07.20 um 23:54 schrieb Paul Menzel: Package: grub-pc Version: 2.04-9 Severity: grave On a Acer TravelMate 5735Z with Debian Sid/unstable, upgrading the package `grub-pc` causes GRUB to fail on next boot and drop into a

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-07-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Debian folks, Am 30.07.20 um 23:54 schrieb Paul Menzel: Package: grub-pc Version: 2.04-9 Severity: grave On a Acer TravelMate 5735Z with Debian Sid/unstable, upgrading the package `grub-pc` causes GRUB to fail on next boot and drop into a rescue shell.     GRUB loading.    

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-07-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.04-9 Severity: grave Dear Debian folks, On a Acer TravelMate 5735Z with Debian Sid/unstable, upgrading the package `grub-pc` causes GRUB to fail on next boot and drop into a rescue shell. GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB! error: symbol 'grub_calloc'