Bugzilla – Bug 523302
"error occurred while installing grub"
Last modified: 2009-10-03 14:19:09 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux 2.6.27.21-0.1-default; X11; x86_64) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko) SUSE MSI Wind U100, installation from external DVD drive. Standard installation, Gnome, almost all defaults except for partitioning which I set up this way: 12.52 GB root ext3 2 GB swap 60 GB home ext3 I created normal user, set password for root, make installation, at the end I saw this error "error occurred while installing grub" dialog with no content inside, so I cannot give more details. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I have the same problem with installing grub using the Milestone 3 DVD (build 146). On console 1, an error is reported: sh: line 1: 29544 Done cat /etc/grub.conf 29544 Segmentation fault (core dumped) | /usr/sbin/grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch > /var/log/YaST2/y2log_bootloader 2>&1 Unfortunately, /var/log/YaST2/y2log_bootloader has a 0 byte length, so it's no point in attaching it. The log file created during the installation, /var/log/YaST2/y2log-1, only shows that the bootloader installation failed and gives no additional information.
does this happen again if you run it on the root cmdline?> cat /etc/grub.conf | /usr/sbin/grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch If yes, can you run it in gdb? gdb /usr/bin/grub r </etc/grub.conf --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch ... SEGV ... (gdb) bt
Marcus I am clearing needinfo on my side, not because I don't want to help, quite contrary, but I cannot now -- I get the notebook for installation, and now it has fully installed system (11.1). Sorry! All I can say, that despite the error, grub was installed correctly the first time. Gnome/KDE does not matter (I tried both). When installation seemed to end, and this error about grub appeared, I just ignored it, and after restart I get perfectly operational grub.
Created attachment 305987 [details] cut and paste output Hope this is enough. Unfortunately, there's no package available with the debug info for grub. Grub does install correctly but, as can be seen from the output, it segfaults when quitting.
/boot/grub/device.map amnd /etc/grub.conf would be interesting too. crash report is not so useful, I guess somewhere memory corruption happens.
David, could you be so kind and get needinfo from me? Because as I said, I no longer have 11.2. Thanks in advance in both cases :-).
Created attachment 305990 [details] grub.conf
Created attachment 305991 [details] device.map
Created attachment 305992 [details] fstab This wasn't requested, but I thought it may help a bit by putting the partitioning into context.
(In reply to comment #6) > David, could you be so kind and get needinfo from me? Because as I said, I no > longer have 11.2. Thanks in advance in both cases :-). I've already attached the requested files and can take over with any other requests quite easily. It's on my laptop and, actually more stable than the 10.1 and 10.3 it's replaced. Now I don't get hard locks when going onto battery.
fixed long time ago *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 515529 ***