Bug 774724

Summary:	grub2-mkconfig takes several minutes to complete
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2	Reporter:	Roman Bysh <rb03884>
Component:	Bootloader	Assignee:	Michael Chang <mchang>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	mchang, mfilka
Version:	RC 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 12.2
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Attachments:	Results of bash -x /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig

Description Roman Bysh 2012-08-06 23:54:23 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1

When running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg it takes about a very long time before it completes scanning two different root partitions. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open konsole or xterm and type su -
2. Type in grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
3. Sit and wait
Actual Results:  
The results take several minutes.

Expected Results:  
The results should only take several seconds.

Comment 1 Roman Bysh 2012-08-11 15:55:05 UTC

Can you please assign this to Michael as he's working on the Yast2-Boot Loader?

I believe the problem with grub2-mkconfig is tied to the scripts causing the Yast2-Boot Loader to freeze up at 100 %.

Comment 2 Michael Chang 2012-08-12 04:00:05 UTC

Hi Roman,

I'm curious in what is "two different root partition" ? We should have
only one partition mounted as root at one time, isn't it ? Are you
multi-booting with other distribution.

An output of "set -x" is helpful in tracing the commands, we could
know where the script get stuck or looping ..

$ bash -x /user/sbin/grub2-mkconfig

PS. I don't test above command work or not, don't set the output to your config as the trace output might clutter it.

Thanks.

Comment 3 Roman Bysh 2012-08-12 15:27:45 UTC

No other distros. Just two different versions of openSUSXE.  I'm multi-booting to 12.1 and 12.2. And yes only one root partition is mounted at one time.

The grub2-mkconfig ran much faster with Grub2 1.99 in RC1.

Which file will you require for me to upload?

Comment 4 Roman Bysh 2012-08-12 17:16:56 UTC

Created attachment 502071 [details]
Results of bash -x /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig

Comment 5 Michael Chang 2012-09-11 04:24:59 UTC

Mark dup of bnc#774560

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 774560 ***