Bug#795100: os-prober: It hangs on kernel package upgrade, making impossible to generate a correct ramdisk
Package: os-prober
Version: 1.65
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
today upgrading the kernel on a server having many FC connected disk I
got grub-mount stuck when trying to mount a logical volume used by
another machine. I got a process in D state, the ramdisk was not
created, I had to stop apt-get by means of kill -9 and I was risking
to have an unbootable server.
I had to remove it to correctly complete the kernel upgrate.
The server was installed selecting just SSH server in tasksel and I do
not uderstand why this package is installed. I cannot understand why a
server installation has to probe all available disk for other
operating systems, a server is never installed as dual boot, and there
is no reason to check for other OS, that's a desktop/laptop feature.
Please remove this package form standard installation and put it only
when user select a desktop environment or a laptop.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-18
os-prober recommends no packages.
os-prober suggests no packages.
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