Re: Segfault on grub update

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:43:30 +0800, titantoppler wrote:

> Did an upgrade on my computer running Wheezy today. grub-pc was one of
> the packages that needed to be updated. However, it failed with a
> segfault during the configuration.
> 
> Syslog has this to say:
> Jun 20 20:34:59 argon kernel: [ 8265.445561] grub-probe[31617]: segfault
> at 14 ip 08077f0a sp bfd40b00 error 4 in grub-probe[8048000+3d000]
> 
> Tried to uninstall and reinstall grub2 + grub-pc (stupid, now I don't
> dare to reboot the computer), but no dice - grub2 refuses to configure
> because of grub-pc, grub-pc still segfaults.

(...)

Any side effects? Is the computer bootable? If you can't boot from your 
own GRUB, you could use any livecd rescue disk and boot from there unless 
it's a remote system.

If the segfault it's still reproducible, I would report it.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón