Bug#508281: update-grub: dramatically fails at reporting errors

2008-12-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] (11/12/2008): Bear on mind that Debian is going to release with 2.6.26 ;-) Sure. But AFAICT, moving from hd* to sd* started way before 2.6.28-rc* (depending on HW, SW stacks, etc.) so some others may encounter similar troubles, even with 2.6.26. But I wasn't

Bug#508281: update-grub: dramatically fails at reporting errors

2008-12-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Jason Thomas jason.tho...@linkinnovations.com (10/12/2008): You could try the following: # sh -x update-grub FWIW, device.map needed an update, after the hda→sda switch (2.6.26 to 2.6.27 and newer). Still, some verbose mode would help. Or at

Bug#508281: update-grub: dramatically fails at reporting errors

2008-12-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: grub Version: 0.97-47lenny1 Severity: serious Justification: Prevents kernel (and system) upgrades Just in case random folks read this bugreport, that's 0.97-47lenny1 from an unstable system, while 0.97-47 is currently in lenny. Don't ask me why. That says it all: ,-- | [EMAIL

Bug#508281: update-grub: dramatically fails at reporting errors

2008-12-09 Thread Jason Thomas
You could try the following: # sh -x update-grub On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:16 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: So be it. Let's debug: ,-- | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/update-grub -h | Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/update-grub

Bug#508281: update-grub: dramatically fails at reporting errors

2008-12-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] (10/12/2008): You could try the following: # sh -x update-grub FWIW, device.map needed an update, after the hda→sda switch (2.6.26 to 2.6.27 and newer). Still, some verbose mode would help. Or at least documentation in the manpage and/or README.Debian. I don't