Bug#711330: grub-installer: grub-install.postinst stuck while 20microsoft tries to probe a windows 7 on second disk (KVM)

[Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>]

Package: grub-installer
Severity: normal

Hi.

I'm trying to install Debian on an IDE image of a KVM / libvirt / virt-manager which has a second (SCSI) drive configured, containing an image of a single-partition disk containing a Windows 7 system.

While the installer runs the grub-install.postinst, it stays stuck on the progress bar.

The stuck process seems an ls on /var/lib/os-prober/mount (IIRC) spawned from the 20microsoft script, trying to detect a microsoft OS on the ntfs partition (/dev/sdb1).

It may happen that the ntfs is not clean, which may explain some mounting issues...

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash