This seems to be just a cosmetic bug - simply the amount of errors looks a bit "scary", so we could change the messages to be just warnings or notifications.
** Description changed: Binary package hint: grub-pc - === PROBLEM === While upgrading grub-pc to karmic-proposed I got following errors/warnings. - After installation my version is: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu5 + After installation my version is: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu5 === WORK AROUND === This errors seem to not cause any problems. - (still I need to reboot after upgrade - if you see this message and comments is over 1 hour old, then something made my PC unbootable ;) + System boots normally to: 2.6.31-20-generic === MORE INFO === /dev/sde seems to be uhm, my USB printer (probably its the SD cards reader or something) Can not open it with cfdisk $ hdparm /dev/sde /dev/sde: - HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid exchange - readonly = 0 (off) - readahead = 256 (on) - geometry = 1024/0/62, sectors = 0, start = 0 + HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid exchange + readonly = 0 (off) + readahead = 256 (on) + geometry = 1024/0/62, sectors = 0, start = 0 Device: Brother DCP-165C Version: 1.00 Device type: disk Local Time is: Sun Feb 28 14:16:43 2010 CET NO MEDIUM present on device - === THE ERROR ==== Setting up grub-pc (1.97~beta4-1ubuntu5) ... error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb (hd2) /dev/sdc (hd3) /dev/sdd (hd4) /dev/sde error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Generating grub.cfg ... error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-19-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-19-generic error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-15-generic error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin File descriptor 3 left open File descriptor 11 left open File descriptor 12 left open File descriptor 50 left open File descriptor 52 left open File descriptor 54 left open - /dev/sde: open failed: No medium found + /dev/sde: open failed: No medium found Found Ubuntu 8.04.2 (8.04) on /dev/sda9 error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size error: cannot open `/dev/sde' while attempting to get disk size done ** Summary changed: - [karmic-proposed] GRUB - warnings while installation + [karmic-proposed] GRUB - warnings while installation - error: cannot open /dev/sd... while attempting to get disk size -- [karmic-proposed] GRUB - warnings while installation - error: cannot open /dev/sd... while attempting to get disk size https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/529455 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.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
