Bug#660670: lenny->squeeze: UUID configuration lists several unrelated devices, and incorrectly
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: normal
When upgrading an old system from lenny to squeeze, I encountered the
dialog from linux-base about changing system configuration to use UUIDs.
The first section ("These devices will be assigned UUIDs or labels:")
correctly showed /dev/hda1 (my root filesystem) and the UUID assigned to
it.
The second section ("These configuration files will be updated:")
correctly showed the list of configuration files this change would
update.
However, the third section ("The device IDs will be changed as
follows:") contained several confusing and possibly incorrect bits of
information. First, it listed /dev/hdc as changing to /dev/cdrom, which
doesn't seem related to UUIDs or labels. Second, it showed /dev/hda2
(my swap device), which didn't appear in the previous sections, and in
addition to showing a UUID for it, the line right after /dev/hda2
showed:
+ PATH=pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0
At first glance that looked like the results of incorrectly parsing the
output of a command, leaving me concerned that this would incorrectly
edit one of my configuration files to contain that appended to a UUID.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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