Re: Warnings when building svn2137

[BandiPat <magicpage91@earthlink.net>]

Andreas wrote:

>>
>> Oh, has anyone experienced any problems with grub-mkdevicemap when 
>> installing Grub2 or updating?  I had one user complain about it 
>> segfaulting on his machine, but I've not seen any problems.  This is 
>> with svn2137.
> I'm experiencing also problems using it, but it's not segfaulting. Using 
> a svn2130 build grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy create a device.map with 
> proper content like this:
> (hd0) /dev/sda
> But a svn2137 build (exactly the same BandiPat uses) creates this 
> content, which might not be wrong, but at least the most important part 
> my HDD is missing:
> (fd0) (null)
> 
> Probably this problem was introduced by revision 2133 and obviously 
> wasn't fixed in rev 2134 - 2137 and in 2138 - 2140 I can see nothing 
> which might fix this.
> It would be great if somebody could have a look what could cause this 
> problem. Maybe davem as the author of that revision.
> If you need any additional information give me a yell and I'll try my 
> best to provide it.
> 
> Andreas
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I just tested on one machine, running grub-mkdevicemap -v from the 
shell, which resulted in a segfault and blank device.map file in /boot/grub!

Looks like some bug was introduced after svn2130 in the file.

Thanks devs for your attention to this one.

Pat