Bug 116563 - grub segfaults when running "setup"
Summary: grub segfaults when running "setup"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks: FC2Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-02-23 09:18 UTC by František Dvořák
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-06-21 23:09:27 UTC
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2004-02-23 09:21 UTC, František Dvořák 		no flags Details
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Description František Dvořák 2004-02-23 09:18:19 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.5)
Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Description of problem:
When I run /sbin/grub, then type 'root (hd0,1)' and 'setup (hd0)',
grub segfaults.

Note, I had the same problems also with grub in FC1 (grub-0.93-7).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub-0.94-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /sbin/grub
2. root (hd0,1)
3. setup --prefix=/usr/share/grub/i386-redhat (hd0)

Actual Results:  SIGSEGV

Expected Results:  grub correctly installed in MBR

Additional info:

My system is FC1 with kernel 2.6.2-1.87.
Comment 1 František Dvořák 2004-02-23 09:21:21 UTC 
Created attachment 97940 [details]
backtrace

Attached is backtrace of the crash (with installed debuginfo).
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-03-04 23:23:59 UTC 
This works for me here... can you grab the first meg or so of your
disk and attach?  Also, trying to install lilo and then reinstalling
grub might work around it.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-06-21 23:09:27 UTC 
Closing due to lack of activity.  Please reopen if you have further
information to add about the problem.
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