After talking to cjwatson on irc, there is another option. update-grub
is failing because /dev/disk/ is not set up in the container. So we
could add an upstart job which runs only in containers, and manually
sets up /dev/disk/. This also might help other software which relies on
/dev/disk/. However, as grub is not installed in ubuntu containers by
default (but is installed in ubuntu-cloud containers) we can't blindly
re-use grub-probe. If we use grub-probe only if it is available, then
we are helping fewer cases. If we detect the root device by hand, I
fear we are duplicating too much fragile code.
Perhaps the best option is simply an upstart job like the below (but
smarter and safer):
start on starting mountall
task
script
type grub-probe > /dev/null 2>&1 || { exit 0; stop; }
mkdir -p /dev/disk/by-label /dev/disk/by-uuid
rootdev=`grub-probe -t device /`
do_mknod /dev/rootdev
rootlabel=`grub-probe -t fs_label /`
ln -s ../../$rootdev /dev/disk/by-label/$rootlabel
rootuuid=`grub-probe -t fs_uuid /`
ln -s ../../$rootdev /dev/disk/by-uuid/$rootuuid
end script
** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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update-grub runs and fails in containers
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