[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2020-05-04 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 Ti

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2020-03-05 Thread Marcus Tomlinson
This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-11-17 Thread nutznboltz
http://askubuntu.com/questions/80224/does-grub2-require-an-optional- scsi-feature -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 Title: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-09-19 Thread Ubuntu QA's Bug Bot
** Tags added: testcase -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 Title: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest To manage notifications about this bug go to

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-07-28 Thread nutznboltz
I was told that SCSI serial numbers are an optional feature. Is grub-pc designed to require an optional feature? ** Attachment added: "VMware Fusion 3.1.3 (416484) /dev/sda has no scsi serial number either." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/604335/+attachment/2238740/+fil

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-23 Thread nutznboltz
FWIW VMWare Fusion Version 3.1.3 (416484) $ lsb_release -ds Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS $ sudo sg_vpd --page=0x80 /dev/sda Unit serial number VPD page: fetching VPD page failed $ lsmod | grep vm vmblock12995 1 vmmemctl8572 0 vmci 31256 1 vsock vmxnet

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-19 Thread nutznboltz
1.98-1ubuntu12.1~ppa4 is more through about insisting on using /dev/vda devices. The previous versions would only try if /dev/by-id was completely missing; this one looks for all the /dev/vd* devices it can find. ** Patch removed: "grub2_1.98-1ubuntu12.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-18 Thread nutznboltz
$ lsb_release -sd Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS $ sudo apt-get safe-upgrade ... skip ... Setting up grub-pc (1.98-1ubuntu12.1~ppa2) ... Installation finished. No error reported. ... skip ... $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc Installation finished. No error reported. Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image:

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-17 Thread nutznboltz
Only Natty and Oneiric are working and only with the caveat that qemu must be invoked with options to set the serial number of the virtio block devices. Lucid will never be fixed correctly. The amount of changes are too huge. I went back to working on script. New version of PPA with script hack

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-17 Thread nutznboltz
** Patch removed: "Hacks the postinst script to not fail for virtio block disks." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/604335/+attachment/2169243/+files/grub2-1.98ubuntu12.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-17 Thread nutznboltz
virt-manager 0.8.7 (on 11.10) does not support virtio block serial numbers. If you even provide a serial number virt-manger will not start the VM guest. Meanwhile I've confirmed that if you just edit libvirt with "virsh edit ..." to insert FOO and boot the VM with "virsh start ..." the /dev/disk/

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-17 Thread nutznboltz
libvirt wiki documents support for virtio disk serial numbers http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks ``serial If present, this specify serial number of virtual hard drive. For example, it may look as WD-WMAP9A966149. Since 0.7.1 '' -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-17 Thread nutznboltz
Heh, just thought "what if you have to set the serial number from the command line". Then I went to check and nutznboltz@lakshmi:~$ qemu --help | egrep 'drive|serial' | head -2 -drive [file=file][,if=type][,bus=n][,unit=m][,media=d][,index=i] [,serial=s][,addr=A][,id=name][,aio=threads|nat

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-17 Thread nutznboltz
Still not fixed on 11.10 nutznboltz@hanuman:~$ lsb_release -sd Ubuntu oneiric (development branch) nutznboltz@hanuman:~$ uname -a Linux hanuman 3.0-0-server #1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 9 16:50:35 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux nutznboltz@hanuman:~$ sudo cat /sys/block/vda/serial nutznboltz@han

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-16 Thread nutznboltz
from qemu git: commit 2930b313dd602d67a568815b0b031b824916cec9 Author: john cooper Date: Fri Jul 2 13:44:25 2010 -0400 Add virtio disk identification support This patch adds the final missing bits for support of passing a serial/id string to a virtio-blk guest driver.

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-16 Thread nutznboltz
So in order to SRU you will need to SRU linux (kernel) virtio_blk.c changes, udev changes and qemu changes. This has not been fixed in 10.10 or 11.04 either (despite my prior claims.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. ht

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-16 Thread nutznboltz
Re: qemu newness. VIRTIO_BLK_T_GET_ID only appears twice inside the kernel and one of the times is the #define. This is because VIRTIO_BLK_T_GET_ID is acted upon in qemu hw/virtio- blk.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-16 Thread nutznboltz
$ lsb_release -sd Ubuntu 11.04 $ ls -l /sys/block/vda/serial -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2011-06-16 13:22 /sys/block/vda/serial $ sudo cat /sys/block/vda/serial $ That file should contain a serial number but it doesn't. Same thing on Fedora (by way of the dm-devel mailing list) http://www.redha

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-15 Thread nutznboltz
As to why it takes virtio block driver changes for /dev/disk/by-id to work compare sudo sg_vpd --page=0x80 /dev/sda with sudo sg_vpd --page=0x80 /dev/vda -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-14 Thread nutznboltz
With that PPA you can run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" on virtio block disk but you get a warning message about swap partitions (e.g. /dev/vda1). You can click "Yes" to continue past it and the package status is still "ii" not "uF" or anything indicating configuration failed. -- You received t

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-14 Thread nutznboltz
PPA with "grub-pc.postinst.udiff" patch integrated since it's less intrusive than kernel patches + udev patches and the issue was fixed in 10.10 here: https://launchpad.net/~nutznboltz/+archive/working-grub2-on-virtio-disk- for-lts Patch attachment is a debdiff against the latest proposed grub2-p

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-14 Thread nutznboltz
The grub-install package does not look for /dev/disk/by-id A peek inside the bash script in that package named /usr/bin/grub- installer shows it just has code to match "/dev/[hsv]d[a-z]". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-14 Thread nutznboltz
The refusal to SRU the original ("grub-pc.postinst.udiff") patch means that kernel changes and udev changes are needed for a bug that was fixed in 10.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-13 Thread nutznboltz
This requires modifying the kernel. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-06/msg02502.html ``[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add 'serial' attribute to virtio-blk devices'' -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-13 Thread nutznboltz
** Patch removed: "udev.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/604335/+attachment/2167401/+files/udev.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 Title: g

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-13 Thread nutznboltz
TEST CASE: Environment: VM with virtio boot disk /dev/vda partition (like /dev/vda1) mounted on / possibly also a partition (like /dev/vda1) on mounted on /boot and no /dev/disk/by-id directory (because of missing udev rules.) Example Environment: $ ls /dev/[shv]d* /dev/vda /dev/vda1 /dev/vda

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-13 Thread nutznboltz
Please test PPA, thanks. https://launchpad.net/~nutznboltz/+archive/working-grub2-on-virtio-disk- for-lts -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 Title: grub-pc.postinst script fails t

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-13 Thread nutznboltz
** Description changed: + A statement explaining the impact of the bug on users and justification + for backporting the fix to the stable release: Multiple people report + they cannot install grub2 on virtio disk on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS + + An explanation of how the bug has been addressed in the deve

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-13 Thread nutznboltz
SRU me. ** Patch added: "udev.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/604335/+attachment/2167401/+files/udev.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 Ti

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-13 Thread nutznboltz
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[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-13 Thread nutznboltz
This is really a udev bug that was fixed (at least) in Natty. udev 167-0ubuntu3 has # virtio-blk KERNEL=="vd*[!0-9]", ATTRS{serial}=="?*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}="$attr{serial}", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/virtio-$env{ID_SERIAL}" KERNEL=="vd*[0-9]", ATTRS{serial}=="?*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}="$attr{serial}", SYMLIN

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-10 Thread nutznboltz
This is really a udev bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 Title: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-10 Thread nutznboltz
/dev/disk/by-id is created by udev rules. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 Title: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest To manage notifications ab

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-10 Thread nutznboltz
Looking at it closer I don't think /dev/disk/by-label makes a difference. It is as if there are at least four committees: grub2, kvm/virtio, udev and Canonical who need to have a meeting to discuss this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-10 Thread nutznboltz
If you have only virtio disk (/dev/vda) then you will not have /dev/disk /by-id should say: If you have only virtio disk (/dev/vda) then you will not have /dev/disk /by-id unless you have an LVM vg. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-06-10 Thread nutznboltz
Appears there are four different udev disk directories not three. /dev/disk/by-id /dev/disk/by-label /dev/disk/by-path /dev/disk/by-uuid If you have only virtio disk (/dev/vda) then you will not have /dev/disk /by-id If you have only virtio disk (/dev/vda) plus a disk label you will have /dev

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-03-09 Thread nutznboltz
@Mark if you really want to submit a real patch, learn how to validate that the change is upstream and how to generate a debdiff and attach it here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-03-09 Thread nutznboltz
@Mark It is very important to realize that you can't submit bugs or comments in any arbitrary format to launchpad and expect them to be recognized. Take some time to learn how launchpad works as input which is not very precisely formatted gets ignored. Some videos to watch: http://www.youtube.co

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2011-03-08 Thread Mark - Syminet
I can't believe you guys actually blackholed stdout during fsck... I updated the code for this to provide for a status bar, like it should be with "e2fsck -C0 -y" as its been since like, forever: https://launchpad.net/~mark-syminet/+archive/syminet ...not applying this to any machine, for obvi

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-11-23 Thread nutznboltz
One more thing: in order to boot from LVM you must use the linux-server kernel package as the linux-virtual one lacks an initrd with LVM modules. -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-11-23 Thread nutznboltz
My current work-around for this is to build the KVM guest using grub2 and LVM encapsulation. For some reason grub2 has no issues installing when using that configuration. 1. Build using Ubuntu 9.10 or later server ISO 2. Select manually disk partitioning 3. Create a single primary partition for

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-10-21 Thread Ronnie Jespersen
Confirmed on xen... Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Release:10.04 Codename: lucid Linux version 2.6.32-24-server (bui...@yellow) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://b

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-09-17 Thread James Stevens
** Description changed: Binary package hint: grub-pc The grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio "vda" disk in a KVM guest because it looks for entries in /dev/disk/by-id/* and there is absolutely no /dev/disk/by-id directory at all when the only disk is a vda virtio one.

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-09-17 Thread James Stevens
Has this bug been addressed yet ??? We run 3 XenServers and we strictly run Ubuntu for the Linux side quests. I just tried to upgrade one of our name servers today and caught this bug. We have 39 active quests running Ubuntu.. This could prove to be problematic unless it has been patched and apt-g

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-08-22 Thread Luís Silva
Same here, but on xen... -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-08-22 Thread Luís Silva
However, reading comment 3, I didn't try the patch. Also, no by-id... just by-path and by-uuid... -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-08-10 Thread Mark - Syminet
Same here - switched a few kvm guests from ide -> virtio disks. Ran apt-get upgrade and voila, broken packaging system. The patch provided by nutznboltz up there solved the issue. -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 You

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-07-28 Thread Jan Jonas
As written in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/524434 I had the same problem with an virtualized Ubuntu 10.04 under XenServer 5.6: The grub installer does not find the virtual hard disks /dev/xvdX. -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-07-27 Thread Dmitry Agafonov
The same situation for xen guests. No by-id things, just by-label, by- path and by-uuid. -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

Re: [Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
Ah, fair enough then. On my list ... status triaged importance high ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-07-12 Thread nutznboltz
The patch I provided here is not meant for production use; it merely illustrates the bug. -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
I would like to fix this somehow, although it seems to me that it's also a udev bug that it doesn't provide by-id links for virtio disks. However, using by-uuid is definitely wrong; by-uuid links only identify filesystems, and the most important entries in this context are those for the top-level d

[Bug 604335] Re: grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest

2010-07-11 Thread nutznboltz
** Attachment added: "grub-pc.postinst.udiff" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51734801/grub-pc.postinst.udiff ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51734179/Dependencies.txt -- grub-pc.postinst script fails to detect virtio vda disk in KVM guest https://bugs.