Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 12:14 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 01:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The latest commit in gnumach should be fixing the disasters that some
> > people have been seeing in their hurd system. This was due to an
> > improper handling of non-block-aligned reads in the gnumach linux block
> > glue, which happens only if partitions are not block-aligned, leading to
> > putting disk data into random physical pages (!).
> > 
> > I'm uploading a fixed gnumach package.
> > 
> > That was for me one of the last bits to fix before making a Debian
> > GNU/Hurd release, does anybody have something else?
> 
> Well, the gnumach solution does not seem to work for me:
> Setting up gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 (2:1.3.99.dfsg.git20130501-1) ...
> run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub
> 1.3.99-486 /boot/gnumach-1.3.99-486.gz
> Generating grub.cfg ...
> grub-probe: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr)
> (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct
> malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >=
> (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk,
> fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) -
> 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask)
> == 0)' failed.
> Aborted
> run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code
> 134
> dpkg: error processing gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  gnumach-image-1.3.99-486
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

> Do I dare to reboot?

Writing of /boot/grub/grub.cfg.new ended with
 function load_video {
  insmod vbe
  insmod vga
  insmod video_bochs
  insmod video_cirrus
}