Is this bad? :-)

Is this bad? :-)

[BandiPat]

Just built svn2220 to try, but it seems there might be a problem.  Can 
you guys enlighten or confirm?  Here is the resulting error when running 
grub-install.

# grub-install /dev/sda
/usr/sbin/grub-install:  line 307:  679 Segmentation fault  $grub_setup 
${setup_verbose} ${setup_force} --directory=${grubdir} 
--device-map=${device_map} ${install_device}

This happened between svn2141 & svn2220
Thanks,
Pat

Re: Is this bad? :-)

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 11:51 -0400 schrieb BandiPat:
> Just built svn2220 to try, but it seems there might be a problem.  Can 
> you guys enlighten or confirm?  Here is the resulting error when running 
> grub-install.
> 
> # grub-install /dev/sda
> /usr/sbin/grub-install:  line 307:  679 Segmentation fault  $grub_setup 
> ${setup_verbose} ${setup_force} --directory=${grubdir} 
> --device-map=${device_map} ${install_device}
> 
> This happened between svn2141 & svn2220

Compile with `CFLAGS="-O0 -g3" ./configure'
then run `ulimit -c unlimited' before running grub-install and you
should get a core dump
Then `gdb /usr/sbin/grub-setup core' and inside of gdb type `bt' to get
a backtrace.
This should tell where exactly it crashed.
-- 
Felix Zielcke

Re: Is this bad? :-)

[Daniel Nebdal]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 11:51 -0400 schrieb BandiPat:
>> Just built svn2220 to try, but it seems there might be a problem.  Can
>> you guys enlighten or confirm?  Here is the resulting error when running
>> grub-install.
>>
>> # grub-install /dev/sda
>> /usr/sbin/grub-install:  line 307:  679 Segmentation fault  $grub_setup
>> ${setup_verbose} ${setup_force} --directory=${grubdir}
>> --device-map=${device_map} ${install_device}
>>
>> This happened between svn2141 & svn2220
>
> Compile with `CFLAGS="-O0 -g3" ./configure'
> then run `ulimit -c unlimited' before running grub-install and you
> should get a core dump
> Then `gdb /usr/sbin/grub-setup core' and inside of gdb type `bt' to get
> a backtrace.
> This should tell where exactly it crashed.

I have the same problem, in ubuntu/x86, using a SVN checkout form a
few hours ago.
The backtrace looks like this:

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 14357]
#0  0x08049ecc in identify_partmap (disk=0xbfb62248, p=0x8e374c0) at
util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c:330
330	      dest_partmap = p->partmap->name;
(gdb) bt
#0  0x08049ecc in identify_partmap (disk=0xbfb62248, p=0x8e374c0) at
util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c:330
#1  0x0806bd00 in pc_partition_map_iterate (disk=0x8e374c0,
hook=0xbfb62248) at partmap/pc.c:151
#2  0x08050dc3 in grub_partition_iterate (hook=0xbfb62248) at
kern/partition.c:124
#3  0x080496d9 in setup (dir=0x8e35008 "/boot/grub",
boot_file=0x807043c "boot.img", core_file=0x8070433 "core.img",
    root=0x8e35110 "hd0,6", dest=0x8e350a8 "hd0", must_embed=0,
force=0) at util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c:333
#4  0x0804a85f in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfb623b4) at
util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c:771
(gdb)

I hope that can be of some use?

-- 
Daniel Nebdal