Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:29:46 +0000 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 12:37:32PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Colin Watson wrote: > > > The current postinst is certainly trying to use ucf in such a way, so > > > let's try to debug this. Please could you: > > > > Oh ok. Let me check that this system is affected first⦠> > Thanks, and sorry for once again taking a while to get round to this. > > > > * attach /var/lib/ucf/cache/:etc:default:grub > > > * attach /etc/default/grub > > > > Attached. > > > > > * show the output of "grep /etc/default/grub /var/lib/ucf/hashfile" > > > > tglase@tglase:~ $ grep /etc/default/grub /var/lib/ucf/hashfile > > fe09266a730fcba271f832ebb82a6a91 /etc/default/grub > > > > > With any luck that will be enough to make some progress here. > > > > OK, thanks! > > Unfortunately, when I put these in place in a VM, I couldn't reproduce > your bug; and the information here looks right, in that the hash in > /var/lib/ucf/hashfile matches the hash of > /var/lib/ucf/cache/:etc:default:grub. There must be something a bit > more subtle happening, or else I'm being stupid. > > I guess we need to break out bigger guns. Could you do the same > package-reinstall procedure as before, only this time: > > * temporarily edit /usr/bin/ucf, changing its initialisation from: > > DEBUG=0 > VERBOSE='' > > to: > > DEBUG=1 > VERBOSE=1 > > * export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer in the environment > > That should let me see both what ucf is doing and (enough of) what the > GRUB postinst is doing. > > Thanks, > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] > >
Hi, AFAICT, we are waiting for more information on this bug - tagging accordingly. Thanks, ~Niels
