Bug#594472: grub-pc: scary messages and very long boot time after upgrade

2010-09-01 Thread Dh H
More observance; I upgraded udev to 161-1 from SID and did not pay attention while I was booting the faulty VM. So the VM waited on passphrase input. When I came back, entered the password, nothing happend and the VM was completely stuck and consuming 100% processor. I killed it and rebooted and s

Bug#594472: grub-pc: scary messages and very long boot time after upgrade

2010-08-31 Thread Dh H
Below is the complete log of the boot with the kvm commandline i use, deleted by aprroximately 5K Lines, as noted inline between ### ###. Should the full log be of interest I am happy to send, just let me know. This is a vanilla install with the current alpha-installer, installation was as stated i

Bug#594472: grub-pc: scary messages and very long boot time after upgrade

2010-08-30 Thread Dh H
> thanks for the analysis. I'm under the impression that mdadm does > assemble the raids, but then fails to recognize the partition table. > But I don't know whether this is still in the realm of mdadm's > responsibility, or whether some other package (linux-image-*?) should > be responsible instea

Bug#594472: grub-pc: scary messages and very long boot time after upgrade

2010-08-30 Thread Dh H
So this looks a bit like there are two erros: 1) mdadm is broken in 3.1.2 and brings up these errormessages. 2) Grub2 seems to be broken, as it does not start crypto, consecutively failing to bring up LVM The only thing I dont understand is why it is only us two experiencing this. To test, I ha

Bug#594472: grub-pc: scary messages and very long boot time after upgrade

2010-08-29 Thread Dh H
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Toni Mueller wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, 29.08.2010 at 07:18:36 +0200, Dh H wrote: >> Downgrading MDADM helped for me, but not completely. >> The behaviour at the beginning is still the same, such that it does >> not find the volume-

Bug#594472: grub-pc: scary messages and very long boot time after upgrade

2010-08-28 Thread Dh H
Downgrading MDADM helped for me, but not completely. The behaviour at the beginning is still the same, such that it does not find the volume-group. But now I am dropped into a shell instead of getting these /sys/devices/virtual/block/mdX messages. In that shell I can use lvm to bring the vg up and

Bug#594472: No success yet but

2010-08-27 Thread Dh H
when I add insmod crypto to the grub.cfg, my system goes directly to mode of flickering led. Booting does not work at all. Could it be that the culprit is within crypto.mod? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#594472: How to get to your data and back up

2010-08-27 Thread Dh H
I managed to get down to my data. Using the Debian NetInstall CD I booted into rescue mode Select language, territory and keyboard as applicable to you. Cancel network autoconfig, if that does not work for you (for me that is the case), and enter appropriate data. Select any hostname and domain Sys

Bug#594472: Some more information from me

2010-08-27 Thread Dh H
Here is some more information from me, as I had not much time this morning: regardless of the passphrase I enter, any is accepted (also wrong ones!!!) and the behaviour after that is the same. Some I captured both standard and (recovery mode) below (please note that the below was copied using an e