[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2011-05-06 Thread xor
I just did a fresh install of natty (amd64). Grub works normally EXCEPT when I try to manually edit the boot settings - then after pressing the boot key it dies with "alloc magic is broken at 0x3fdb7230" most of the time (not always, sometimes it works). I did TWO full test runs of memtest86+ and

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2011-05-06 Thread xor
Grub version used in #9: 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498882 Title: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks -- ubuntu-bugs mailing lis

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2011-05-06 Thread negativland2009
just to point out I have had no problems since I replaced some ram which failed totally - after completing memtest and other ram tests fine - looks like it showed errors only with grub2 while it was pre-failure which is bizzare. Have since changed ram to another make entirely (corsair xms2) after u

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2011-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
The reported message is a symptom of a general memory management failure somewhere, equivalent to a malloc or free failure; it should not be assumed that any two people with this kind of symptom have it for the same reason. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2011-06-06 Thread Daniel Nyström
I'm getting this too, but I'm also getting random MCE reboots. Running on Xeon W3680 w/ 24GB Kingston ECC RAM (QVL). I've been running memtest as well for a long time, but no indication on memory errors. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2010-03-13 Thread negativland2009
I think so, something hardware based or ram settings maybe ... Ive also had problems with ram bios settings before and had to update bios to get the auto (by spd) settings / voltage right .. also 2 identical make/model ram but 1 was newer and ran at different voltage .. or faulty power supply ...

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2010-03-13 Thread negativland2009
then check you have latest bios and the ram timing / voltage settings are correct - depends if you have a bios that allows you to do this .. -- grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498882 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2010-03-13 Thread rubioo
Thanks for all the help. I'll check the status of RAM. -- grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498882 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2010-03-12 Thread rubioo
Hello, I have the same problem. When I turn on my computer I get this: Grub Loading free magic is bronken at 0x41f32b00: 0x10 Aborted. Press any key to exit. Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key or this: Out of range pointer 0x41f7

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2010-03-13 Thread negativland2009
Hi rubioo, havent had any replies or anything to this so kind of forgot about it ... turned out though that grub legacy I reverted to was fine for a while then suddenly started getting errors with this too - still no problems with any other software including memory intensive games on windows etc -

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2010-03-13 Thread rubioo
Then, it must be the RAM? -- grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498882 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.c

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2009-12-29 Thread negativland2009
well Ive wasted a lot of time now trying to find a solution - reinstalled grub2 several times by all the different methods - tried the previous version before the update - ran memtest on memory and mprime/prime95 torture tests (which Ive found will detect any hardware problems if memtest doesnt

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2009-12-20 Thread negativland2009
meant to say - is fresh install ubuntu 9.10 with grub2 - not upgrade - working fine on laptop with only 1 disk -- grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498882 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2020-03-05 Thread Marcus Tomlinson
This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2020-06-14 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498882 Ti

[Bug 498882] Re: grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks

2020-04-15 Thread hashem
I have this error some times on ubuntu 18.04 bionic on Proxmox when adding a new disk to VM and create a new volume group on it. when I restart os this error occurs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa