From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JuSFQ-0002KY-JM for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:02:52 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuSFN-0002KI-NY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:02:49 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuSFL-0002Jo-WF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:02:49 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34370 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuSFL-0002Jk-SX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:02:47 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:51394) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuSFL-0006kL-Nn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:02:47 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JuSFJ-0001x2-5e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 15:02:46 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JuSEb-0008NN-0U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 15:02:01 +0200 Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:02:01 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080509130200.GE3705@thorin> References: <200805080454.54578.isaacmarcos100010@gmail.com> <1210262124.23398.18.camel@dv> <200805081153.24513.isaacmarcos100010@gmail.com> <1210284927.9311.9.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1210284927.9311.9.camel@dv> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub-probe gets a segfault X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 13:02:50 -0000 On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 06:15:27PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:53 -0430, Isaac M. Marcos wrote: > > > Does: > > # grub-probe -t device / > > involve anything Debian specific ???????? > > It was a generic recommendation. But if grub-probe was compiled by > Debian, it's Debian specific in a certain sense. I don't think there's any change in Debian affecting this area. But anyway I recommend that you follow Pavel's advice and run it from CVS directly. > I cannot reproduce the crash, even on a Fedora installed on a LVM > volume. Neither could I :-( > > Good, next step? I'm thinking that perhaps we can check the offset values against the bounds of the structure we have allocated, and abort if they miss. We need to do this anyway to support broken PVs, but I don't know if this is hiding a bug in our code somewhere else. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)