On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 05:46:03PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Control: severity -1 normal >Control: retitle -1 [d-i bullseye alpha2 i386] Configuring 'grub-installer' >failed with error code 134 >Control: tags -1 + unreproducible > >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: >> Hey Holger! >> >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 01:35:24PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >> >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hmmm. Can you try wiping the partition table in between tests? >> > >> >I already tried that on wednesday, with no success. >> > >> >However, today it does the trick! Success! >> >Curious, but installation completed fine. >> > >> >Will see, if I can reproduce it again... >> >> ACK. I'm struggling to understand this otherwise. > >Hmm, this is getting annoying: >while doing several test installs, I thought I had a path how to reproduce >the issue, but then suddenly it looked completely different than before. >So, that's something between "some portion of coincidence involved" and >"wow, not it looks like a hardware failure". > >And since I was never able to reproduce the issue on amd64, it seems at >least to be a i386-only issue, and thus could be considered as a corner >case... > >Therefore reducing severity to normal and tagging as unreproducible >+ renaming to include the exact error message: >"Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 134" >(leaving this bug open for a while, other people with the same problem may >find it, and probably shade some light on it.)
ACK. Thanks for continuing on with this - unreproducible bugs are the worst... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant, now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross
