I initially had the same problem with "Cannot get the real path of /dev/hda".
My device.map was from 2006, so I recreated it with
rm /boot/grub/device.map && grub --device-map
and got the device paths corrected to /dev/sd?.
However now update-grub hangs pretty much forever, and I get messages
like this on my kernel log:
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[4520359.961987] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520372.128819] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520384.295621] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520384.295633] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[4520396.461384] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520396.461396] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[4520408.628195] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520420.797716] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520420.797722] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[4520432.972089] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520432.972102] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[4520467.706750] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520479.878390] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520492.048230] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[4520492.048236] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
...
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I rmmod'd the floppy module and recreated device.map. /dev/fd0 is
still added to the map, and after that update-grub fails with
grub-probe: error: Cannot get the real path of `/dev/fd0'
.
If I remove or comment out the (fd0) line in device.map, after that
update-grub silently fails (no error printed, but exit code is 139 -
the culprit is grub-probe *segfaulting*). Kernel logs show no oops, so
I guess it's a user space thing, not the kernel crashing. (This might
be another bug, but since I hit it when inspecting this one, I'll
describe it here.)
I rebuilt grub-common with debug syms and got a backtrace. The crash
occurs in the LVM code. Curiously the crash happens when calling
grub_lvm_scan_device("hd0,3"), not while probing for the floppy disk.
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# gdb --args grub-probe -t device fd0
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(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/sbin/grub-probe -t device fd0
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000000040589d in grub_memmove (dest=0x7fff8774e2c0, src=0x6, n=37) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/kern/misc.c:43
43 *--d = *--s;
(gdb) bt
#0 0x000000000040589d in grub_memmove (dest=0x7fff8774e2c0, src=0x6, n=37) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/kern/misc.c:43
#1 0x000000000041f3d0 in grub_lvm_scan_device (name=0x6350c0 "hd0,3") at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/disk/lvm.c:310
#2 0x00000000004044a1 in iterate_partition (disk=0x635010,
partition=0x7fff8774e9d0) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/kern/device.c:132
#3 0x000000000041c551 in pc_partition_map_iterate (disk=0x635010,
hook=0x7fff8774eb8f) at /home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/partmap/pc.c:153
#4 0x000000000040808f in grub_partition_iterate (hook=0x7fff8774eb8f) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/kern/partition.c:126
#5 0x0000000000404535 in iterate_disk (disk_name=0x7fff8774eae0 "hd0") at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/kern/device.c:101
#6 0x0000000000401e37 in call_hook (hook=0x7fff8774eb78, drive=128) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/util/biosdisk.c:131
#7 0x0000000000401e6c in grub_util_biosdisk_iterate (hook=0x7fff8774eb78) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/util/biosdisk.c:140
#8 0x0000000000404985 in grub_disk_dev_iterate (hook=0x7fff8774eb78) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/kern/disk.c:205
#9 0x00000000004043f4 in grub_device_iterate (hook=0x41f080
<grub_lvm_scan_device>) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/kern/device.c:138
#10 0x000000000041faeb in grub_mod_init (mod=0x0) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/disk/lvm.c:511
#11 0x000000000041fad3 in grub_lvm_init () at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/disk/lvm.c:509
#12 0x0000000000420ca0 in grub_init_all () at grub_probe_init.c:44
#13 0x0000000000401cc1 in main (argc=4, argv=0x7fff8774ed38) at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/util/grub-probe.c:355
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There's something hairy going on with the metadata buffer, and at
least it seems the grub_strstr() return value should be checked:
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(gdb) up
#1 0x000000000041f3d0 in grub_lvm_scan_device (name=0x6350c0 "hd0,3") at
/home/sliedes/rec/grub2-1.96+20080228/disk/lvm.c:310
310 grub_memcpy (vg_id, p, GRUB_LVM_ID_STRLEN);
(gdb) print p
$1 = 0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>
(gdb) l
305
306 grub_memcpy (vgname, p, vgname_len);
307 vgname[vgname_len] = '\0';
308
309 p = grub_strstr (q, "id = \"") + sizeof ("id = \"") - 1;
310 grub_memcpy (vg_id, p, GRUB_LVM_ID_STRLEN);
311 vg_id[GRUB_LVM_ID_STRLEN] = '\0';
312
313 for (vg = vg_list; vg; vg = vg->next)
314 {
(gdb) print q
$2 = 0x66b5b4 " LVM2 x[5A%r0N*>\001"
(gdb) print metadatabuf
$3 = 0x66b5b0 "\033Ç5` LVM2 x[5A%r0N*>\001"
(gdb) info locals
err = GRUB_ERR_NONE
disk = (grub_disk_t) 0x6350e0
da_offset = 196608
da_size = 0
mda_offset = 4096
mda_size = 192512
buf = "LABELONE\001\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\226°ÐË \000\000\000LVM2
001Tuf1htoXt6rUT4rRoUEhfsX0hI0vYetY\000\000öø\r\000\000\000\000\000\003", '\0'
<repeats 30 times>, "\020\000\000\000\000\000\000\000ð\002", '\0' <repeats 396
times>
vg_id = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
pv_id = "Tuf1ht-oXt6-rUT4-rRoU-Ehfs-X0hI-0vYetY"
metadatabuf = 0x66b5b0 "\033Ç5` LVM2 x[5A%r0N*>\001"
p = 0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>
q = 0x66b5b4 " LVM2 x[5A%r0N*>\001"
vgname = 0x6387d0 "\033Ç5`"
lh = (struct grub_lvm_label_header *) 0x7fff8774e2f0
pvh = (struct grub_lvm_pv_header *) 0x7fff8774e310
dlocn = (struct grub_lvm_disk_locn *) 0x7fff8774e368
mdah = (struct grub_lvm_mda_header *) 0x66b5b0
rlocn = (struct grub_lvm_raw_locn *) 0x66b5d8
i = 32
j = 38
vgname_len = 4
vg = (struct grub_lvm_vg *) 0x0
pv = (struct grub_lvm_pv *) 0x2b62235e6d26
(gdb)
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hd0 is /dev/sda in devices.map, and this is what /dev/sda looks like:
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$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2514e14e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 20 160618+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 21 212 1542240 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 213 7508 58605120 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda4 * 7509 9732 17864280 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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The computer is an amd64 box with lvm2. /dev/sda1 is an ext2 /boot
partition, root is crypted and initramfs is used to set things up in
the boot.
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$ mount
/dev/mapper/root-decrypted on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=120)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/mapper/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/home on /var/chroot/ia32/home type none (rw,bind)
/tmp on /var/chroot/ia32/tmp type none (rw,bind)
proc on /var/chroot/ia32/proc type proc (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
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Relevant packages:
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ii grub 0.97-35 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy
version)
ii grub-common 1.96+20080228-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2
(common files)
ii grub-doc 0.97-35 Documentation for GRand Unified
Bootloader (dummy package)
un grub-efi <none> (no description available)
un grub-ieee1275 <none> (no description available)
ii grub-legacy-doc 0.97-35 Documentation for GRUB Legacy
un grub-linuxbios <none> (no description available)
un grub-pc <none> (no description available)
un grub2 <none> (no description available)
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