Hello all, this is my first post on this list :-)
I'm resending my previous mail which was directly rejected: I was aware of the fact that grub-devel is a subscribed-only list, but I (erroneously) thought there was a sort of administrator. Never mind... I'm posting here as suggested by Robert Millan, including the original Debian bug report, available at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390473 Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:46:14 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi Robert! > > To the grub-devel guys: attached the report of a grub2 bug I > experienced on Debian (marco_g should already be aware of). In case > of replies, please cc: the Debian BTS and myself (I set R-T and M-F-T > accordingly). > > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:10:12 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> Given that this is treated as a syntax error, I don't consider it to >> be release critical (it is important, though, on the basis that a >> non-release Debian platform depends on it). > > Well, given the definition of critical [1] and the fact that with the > old menu.lst converted to grub.cfg my system broke, I chose critical. > However, I agree that mine could be considered a not-so-common case, > thus I'm fine with important :-) > >> I would like not to diverge from upstream, specialy since GNU/Hurd >> is a platform we expect them to support. Please, could you resend >> your report to them ? (grub-devel@gnu.org). > > Done (and marked the Debian bug as forwarded). > > I should note that thanks to the help of #hurd and #grub of Freenode > (mostly marco_g ;-) ), the problem is solved escaping the "bad" > characters within single quotes. > > Anyway, I still consider it an important bug (at least because there's > no documentation for it). Waiting for an upstream solution, I'll put > a note in the README.Debian (or better in the NEWS.Debian, which is > showed during upgrades). > > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca > > Footnotes: > [1] makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) > break, or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole > on systems where you install the package
--- Begin Message ---Package: grub2 Version: 1.94+20060926-1 Severity: critical Hello, with the previous grub1 I had a Debian GNU/Hurd entry in my menu.lst: ===== title Debian GNU/Hurd root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s10 module /hurd/ext2fs.static \ --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} \ --host-priv-port=${host-port} \ --device-master-port=${device-port} \ --exec-server-task=${exec-task} \ -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) boot ===== The first time I installed grub2 I "converted" that entry into the grub2 config menu: ===== menuentry "Debian GNU/Hurd" { set root=(hd0,9) multiboot /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s10 module /hurd/ext2fs.static \ --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} \ --host-priv-port=${host-port} \ --device-master-port=${device-port} \ --exec-server-task=${exec-task} \ -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) } ===== After a `grub-install /dev/hda` and a reboot, grub2 entered in a panic state at boot. Hopefully, the panic is reproducible, even on qemu: create the following stanza (you can substitute $ with a second { ): menuentry "test" { $ } The panic is similar to the error generated with a $ at the beginning of the grub.cfg file. While in the latter case grub2 can continue booting, in n the former case the only way to solve it is to boot with a rescue CD and remove the offending characters from grub2.cfg. Trying to escape \$ \{ and \} doesn't solve the problem. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages grub2 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii liblzo1 1.08-3 data compression library (old vers ii libncurses5 5.5-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand grub2 recommends no packages. -- no debconf informationpgpNe7ugMiix3.pgp
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