Your message dated Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:55:37 -0400 (EDT) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1110934: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #403435, regarding Questionable behavior of update-grub when root device does not exist to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: grub Version: 0.97-20 Severity: wishlist Hi, I recently needed to use update-grub while recovering a system. I've booted from a live CD and started LVM, which hosts the root filesystem on a logical volume, then mounted root on /mnt and chrooted into it. Running update-grub in a chroot resulted in a broken menu.lst file for the following reason: the root device, extracted by update-grub from /etc/fstab (/dev/mapper/rootvg-rootlv) was not present inside the chroot, so even though the root device name was correctly determined in the find_device() function, it was later discarded due to device=`readlink -f "$device"` line, since readlink returns an empty string for a non-existent file. As a result I ended up with fallback root=/dev/hda1 entries in my kernel lines, which is really suboptimal. I see at least two different ways to resolve the problem. One is to run readlink only on devices which are symbolic links (maybe even a check that it exists is sufficient). Another is to prompt user whether it is ok to use a non-existent device as root=. Either way, if there is information about the root device available in fstab, there is no good reason to toss it out in favour of most-probably-wrong /dev/hda1 fallback. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov [email protected] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC
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--- Begin Message ---Apologies; this wasn't sent as part of the dak rm action. I'm doing this by hand. Since this was manual, this opens the chance for me taking action by mistake. I got the list of bugs via UDD, and am closing via -close on BCC. I spot checked about 10 of the bugs, and they're all src:grub. The COUNT matches the tracker page, so I'm sending this. If I have closed a bug that's not about bin:grub or src:grub, please do re-open the bug. paultag We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following package(s) have been removed from unstable: grub | 0.97-84 | source grub-legacy | 0.97-84 | amd64, i386 ------------------- Reason ------------------- ROM; dead upstream, replaced by grub2 ---------------------------------------------- Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug. The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is really needed, please contact them if this should be the case. We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected]. The full log for this bug can be viewed at https://bugs.debian.org/1110934 This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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