Re: 2.6.18 problems with grub and ACPI

From: Richard Lyons <richard(at)the-place.net>
Date: Sat Feb 16 2008 - 18:44:01 EST

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:43:36PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 21:11 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:53:20AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> >
> > > Richard Lyons wrote:
> > > > I am frequently tempted to go back to lilo. IIRC, lilo always found the
> > > > right information including windows partition -- which grub doesn't know
> > > > about, so you always have to add that by hand. Not that I boot 'doze
> > > > more often than once a year...
> > >
> > > The Debian Etch version of the debian-installer will detect ms-windows
> > > partitions and automatically add them to the grub menu.lst file. So
> > > in theory it shouldn't be necessary to add them by hand anymore.
> >
> > Ah, that is useful. But only if you are installing from scratch.
> >
> > More often, one is merely upgrading a kernel, or worse, as in my case,
> > replacing grub after it was removed by an errant aptitude kernel
> > install. So I suppose we should be asking for the same capabilities
> > that the debian installer has to be added to update-grub.
>
> I'm really surprised that _installing_ a kernel actually removed, *and*
> *purged* another package.
>
> Do you still have you /var/log/dpkg.log, so I can investigate and file
> bug where appropriate ?

Ah, yes. I do. Looking at it, maybe it wasn't the linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 that did it: I had forgotton that I also installed a motley collection comprising:

    linux-headers-2.6.18-5
    linux-kbuild-2.6.18
    loop-aes-utils
(don't ask me why...) One of them may have done it. Anyway, it was at that point that I remembered to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, and discovered the whole /boot/grub directory had disappeared. I attach the contents of /var/log/dpkg.log below.
>
> Also, I'm surprised you are using 2.6.17, since it wasn't in any stable
> release (neither in Sarge or Etch). What release do you use ?

I originally intalled etch quite a while back, a few months before it went stable (at the time I thought it was a matter of days...). Probably the 2.6.17 dates from then. I have a slow connection via GPRS here and avoid updates generally, so I have updated ad-hoc what I use most or think may have changed. I'll get to a friend with real adsl sometime and do a full update. Though I'll still use the 2.6.17 since the .18 killed ACPI. Or maybe etch-and-a-half will allow me to try 2.6.24 by then.

HTH

----------------------------------/var/log/dpkg.log---------------

2008-02-14 16:38:35 install linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 <non definita> 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 16:38:35 status half-installed linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 16:38:38 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 16:38:38 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 16:38:38 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 16:38:38 status half-configured linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 16:38:53 status installed linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:10 install linux-headers-2.6.18-5 <non definita> 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:10 status half-installed linux-headers-2.6.18-5 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:11 status unpacked linux-headers-2.6.18-5 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:11 status unpacked linux-headers-2.6.18-5 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17

2008-02-14 17:28:11 install linux-kbuild-2.6.18  2.6.18-1
2008-02-14 17:28:11 status half-installed linux-kbuild-2.6.18 2.6.18-1
2008-02-14 17:28:11 status unpacked linux-kbuild-2.6.18 2.6.18-1
2008-02-14 17:28:11 status unpacked linux-kbuild-2.6.18 2.6.18-1
2008-02-14 17:28:11 install linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686 

2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:11 status half-installed linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:12 status unpacked linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:12 status unpacked linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17

2008-02-14 17:28:12 install loop-aes-utils  2.12r-15+b1
2008-02-14 17:28:12 status half-installed loop-aes-utils 2.12r-15+b1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-utils 2.12r-15+b1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-utils 2.12r-15+b1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 install loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-5-686 
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status half-installed loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-5-686
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-5-686
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-5-686
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 install loop-aes-testsuite 
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status half-installed loop-aes-testsuite
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-testsuite 3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-testsuite 3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked linux-headers-2.6.18-5

2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status half-configured linux-headers-2.6.18-5 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status installed linux-headers-2.6.18-5 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17

2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked linux-kbuild-2.6.18 2.6.18-1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status half-configured linux-kbuild-2.6.18 2.6.18-1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status installed linux-kbuild-2.6.18 2.6.18-1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686

2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status half-configured linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status installed linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17

2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-utils 2.12r-15+b1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-utils 2.12r-15+b1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status half-configured loop-aes-utils 2.12r-15+b1
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2008-02-14 17:28:13 status installed loop-aes-utils 2.12r-15+b1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status unpacked loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-5-686
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:13 status half-configured loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-5-686
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:14 status installed loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-5-686
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:14 status unpacked loop-aes-testsuite 3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:14 status half-configured loop-aes-testsuite
3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:28:14 status installed loop-aes-testsuite 3.1d-13etch1
2008-02-14 17:43:06 install grub  0.97-27
2008-02-14 17:43:06 status half-installed grub 0.97-27
2008-02-14 17:43:07 status unpacked grub 0.97-27
2008-02-14 17:43:07 status unpacked grub 0.97-27
2008-02-14 17:43:07 status unpacked grub 0.97-27
2008-02-14 17:43:07 status half-configured grub 0.97-27
2008-02-14 17:43:07 status installed grub 0.97-27
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richard


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