Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Thu 02 May 2013 12:14:46 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 01:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > The latest commit in gnumach should be fixing the disasters that some
> > people have been seeing in their hurd system. This was due to an
> > improper handling of non-block-aligned reads in the gnumach linux block
> > glue, which happens only if partitions are not block-aligned, leading to
> > putting disk data into random physical pages (!).
> > 
> > I'm uploading a fixed gnumach package.
> > 
> > That was for me one of the last bits to fix before making a Debian
> > GNU/Hurd release, does anybody have something else?
> 
> Well, the gnumach solution does not seem to work for me:
> Setting up gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 (2:1.3.99.dfsg.git20130501-1) ...
> run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub
> 1.3.99-486 /boot/gnumach-1.3.99-486.gz
> Generating grub.cfg ...
> grub-probe: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr)

But I guess you were still running the old kernel while doing this?

You need to reboot with the new kernel to see the issue finally fixed.

Samuel