Package: grub-common Version: 1.96+20080724-12 Severity: important Hi, For me, update-grub is _painfully_ slow to execute, taking 10-30minutes! I've tracked this to its use of grub-probe. An example grub-probe command, such as:
grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --device /dev/sda3 --target=fs_uuid takes something like 10 minutes to execute. Analysis with strace shows almost all the time is spent in ioctl(BLKFLSBUF), which is executed over and over again - 59 times for the command above. Running with -v shows that grub-probe is re-opening the partition devices repeatedly. In the command above, after opening all the partitions in my system a few times (why, when specifically asked about one?), it proceeded to open /dev/sda3 31 times before finally returning the requested UUID. I'm selecting this as severity=important, since the immediate manifestation of the bug is that any attempt to install/upgrade a kernel package seems to hang when it invokes update-grub. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
