Package: os-prober Version: 1.53 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation? Ran os-prober * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I ran os-prober * What was the outcome of this action? /dev/sda1:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/os-prober/mount': Device or resource busy /dev/sda2:Windows Vista (loader):Windows1:chain /dev/sdg1:unknown Linux distribution:Linux:linux rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/os-prober/mount': Device or resource busy [ at this point all output stops ] * What outcome did you expect instead? A list of operating systems. *** End of the template - remove these lines *** njh@packard:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda6 / ext3 errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1 UUID=38cb96ce-03b3-48e8-bb07-ada30a8f9c54 / ext3 errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1 # /dev/sdb2 /home ext3 noatime 0 2 UUID=924ab451-776c-4558-bca5-f52dee7a4ea2 /home ext3 noatime 0 2 # /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0 UUID=0fa1b1a3-d3cc-4a3c-aa6f-37b5ee44261c none swap sw 0 0 # /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 # /dev/sda2 /mnt/c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0,nls-utf8 0 0 UUID=BA7657137656CFAD /mnt/c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0,nls-utf8 00 # /dev/sdb1 /mnt/d ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0,nls-utf8 0 0 UUID=5A3A6E293A6E027D /mnt/d ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0,nls-utf8 00 gateway:/ /mnt/gateway nfs rw,hard,intr,nolock 0 0 gateway:/home /mnt/gateway/home nfs rw,hard,intr,nolock 0 0 gateway:/var /mnt/gateway/var nfs rw,hard,intr,nolock 0 0 gateway:/var/www/mirrors/CPAN /mnt/CPAN nfs ro,intr 0 0 # 192.168.7.97:/Users/nigel/web /mnt/web nfs rw,intr 0 0 /dev/sdg1 /mnt/sdg1 ufs ro,ufstype=sun 0 0 # LABEL=packard-mnt-sdg1 /mnt/sdg1 ufs ro,ufstype=sun 0 0 /dev/sdg8 /mnt/sdg8 ufs ro,ufstype=sun 0 0 # LABEL=packard-mnt-sdg8 /mnt/sdg8 ufs ro,ufstype=sun 0 0 njh@packard:~$ It looks as though os-prober has hung because it hasn't noticed that the mount command has finished: 28179 pts/0 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests /dev/sdg8 28506 pts/0 D 0:00 mount -o ro -t ufs /dev/sdg8 /var/lib/os-prober/mount -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages os-prober depends on: ii libc6 2.13-34 os-prober recommends no packages. os-prober suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120705002102.31114.18034.report...@packard.bandsman.co.uk