Attempting to narrow down the cause of this bug led me to an interesting
discovery.
There's a rather large difference between the /usr/sbin/extlinux-update
files in 3:6.00~pre4+dfsg-7 and 3:6.00~pre4+dfsg-8 that appears (in
part, at least) to be related to this issue.
This difference also exists in 3:6.00~pre4+dfsg-9.
Here's the diff output from 3:6.00~pre4+dfsg-7 to 3:6.00~pre4+dfsg-8 and
3:6.00~pre4+dfsg-9:
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< _EXTLINUX_DIRECTORY="/boot/extlinux"
<
< Update ()
< {
< # Upate target file using source content
< _TARGET="${1}"
< _SOURCE="${2}"
<
< _TMPFILE="${_TARGET}.tmp"
< rm -f "${_TMPFILE}"
<
< echo "${_SOURCE}" > "${_TMPFILE}"
<
< if [ -e "${_TARGET}" ] && cmp -s "${_TARGET}" "${_TMPFILE}"
< then
< rm -f "${_TMPFILE}"
< else
< # FIXME: should use fsync here
< echo "P: Updating ${_TARGET}..."
< mv -f "${_TMPFILE}" "${_TARGET}"
< fi
< }
<
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< # Checking extlinux directory
< echo -n "P: Checking for EXTLINUX directory..."
<
< # Creating extlinux directory
< if [ ! -e "${_EXTLINUX_DIRECTORY}" ]
< then
< echo " not found."
<
< echo -n "P: Creating EXTLINUX directory..."
< mkdir -p "${_EXTLINUX_DIRECTORY}"
< echo " done: ${_EXTLINUX_DIRECTORY}"
< else
< echo " found."
< fi
<
< # Setting defaults
< EXTLINUX_ALTERNATIVES="${EXTLINUX_ALTERNATIVES:-default recovery}"
< EXTLINUX_DEFAULT="${EXTLINUX_DEFAULT:-l0}"
< EXTLINUX_ENTRIES="${EXTLINUX_ENTRIES:-all}"
< EXTLINUX_MEMDISK="${EXTLINUX_MEMDISK:-true}"
< EXTLINUX_MEMDISK_DIRECTORY="${EXTLINXU_MEMDISK_DIRECTORY:-/boot}"
<
< if [ -z "${EXTLINUX_MENU_LABEL}" ]
< then
< if [ -x "$(which lsb_release 2>/dev/null)" ]
< then
< EXTLINUX_MENU_LABEL="$(lsb_release -i -s) GNU/Linux, kernel"
< else
< EXTLINUX_MENU_LABEL="Debian GNU/Linux, kernel"
< fi
< fi
<
< EXTLINUX_OS_PROBER="${EXTLINUX_OS_PROBER:-true}"
< EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS="${EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS:-ro quiet}"
<
< if [ -z "${EXTLINUX_ROOT}" ]
< then
< # Find root partition
< while read _LINE
< do
<
< read _FS_SPEC _FS_FILE _FS_VFSTYPE _FS_MNTOPS _FS_FREQ _FS_PASSNO << EOF
< ${_LINE}
< EOF
<
< if [ "${_FS_SPEC}" != "#" ] && [ "${_FS_FILE}" = "/" ]
< then
< EXTLINUX_ROOT="root=${_FS_SPEC}"
< break
< fi
< done < /etc/fstab
< fi
<
< if [ -z "${EXTLINUX_THEME}" ]
< then
< # Using default menu if available
< if [ -e /usr/share/EXTLINUX/themes/default ]
< then
< EXTLINUX_THEME="default"
< else
< EXTLINUX_THEME="none"
< fi
< fi
<
< EXTLINUX_TIMEOUT="${EXTLINUX_TIMEOUT:-50}"
<
< # Writing new default file
< cat > "/etc/default/extlinux" << EOF
< ## /etc/default/extlinux - configuration file for extlinux-update(8)
<
< EXTLINUX_UPDATE="${EXTLINUX_UPDATE}"
<
< EXTLINUX_ALTERNATIVES="${EXTLINUX_ALTERNATIVES}"
< EXTLINUX_DEFAULT="${EXTLINUX_DEFAULT}"
< EXTLINUX_ENTRIES="${EXTLINUX_ENTRIES}"
< EXTLINUX_MEMDISK="${EXTLINUX_MEMDISK}"
< EXTLINUX_MEMDISK_DIRECTORY="${EXTLINUX_MEMDISK_DIRECTORY}"
< EXTLINUX_MENU_LABEL="${EXTLINUX_MENU_LABEL}"
< EXTLINUX_OS_PROBER="${EXTLINUX_OS_PROBER}"
< EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS="$(echo -n ${EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS} | sed -e
's|\"|\\\"|g')"
< EXTLINUX_ROOT="${EXTLINUX_ROOT}"
< EXTLINUX_THEME="${EXTLINUX_THEME}"
< EXTLINUX_TIMEOUT="${EXTLINUX_TIMEOUT}"
< EOF
<
< # Source /etc/extlinux.d scripts
---
> # Running /etc/extlinux.d scripts
I hope this helps you fix this problem.
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