On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 11:07 +0100, Conrad J.C. Hughes (for Debian package stuff) wrote: > Package: os-prober > Version: 1.58 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > os-prober can appear to hang, possibly while trying to probe a hung NFS > server, and attempts to kill this (typically invoked during kernel > upgrade) can leave you with a machine which can't mount drives that it > needs to probe, because the kernel upgrade has removed/updated the > running kernel's FS modules. > > I'm not sure what the best way of dealing with this is, but two that > occur to me are: > > - If os-prober hung because it was trying to probe my NFS mount, then > should it really be doing that? Does it make sense to os-probe > network drives during a kernel upgrade? > > - If it hung because it was trying to load fuse/ntfs kernel modules > which had just been rendered unloadable by updates from the (3.2.0-4 > to 3.2.0-4, so far as I can see: same version) partial kernel > upgrade, then perhaps os-prober should be run before the existing > kernel's modules are replaced? [...] There is no need to re-run os-prober during a kernel update. In fact I don't think it should ever be run automatically, aside from during installation. I think this is a bug in GRUB (which invokes it during kernel update) rather than os-prober. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus
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