Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 05:46:03PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
>Control: severity -1 normal
>Control: retitle -1 [d-i bullseye alpha2 i386] Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 134
>Control: tags -1 + unreproducible
>
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> Hey Holger!
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 01:35:24PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> >Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hmmm. Can you try wiping the partition table in between tests?
>> >
>> >I already tried that on wednesday, with no success.
>> >
>> >However, today it does the trick! Success!
>> >Curious, but installation completed fine.
>> >
>> >Will see, if I can reproduce it again...
>>
>> ACK. I'm struggling to understand this otherwise.
>
>Hmm, this is getting annoying:
>while doing several test installs, I thought I had a path how to reproduce
>the issue, but then suddenly it looked completely different than before.
>So, that's something between "some portion of coincidence involved" and
>"wow, not it looks like a hardware failure".
>
>And since I was never able to reproduce the issue on amd64, it seems at
>least to be a i386-only issue, and thus could be considered as a corner
>case...
>
>Therefore reducing severity to normal and tagging as unreproducible
>+ renaming to include the exact error message:
>"Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 134"
>(leaving this bug open for a while, other people with the same problem may
>find it, and probably shade some light on it.)
ACK. Thanks for continuing on with this - unreproducible bugs are the
worst... :-/
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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