[Bug 1385045] Re: Grub fails during upgrade due to lingering BTRFS information on drive

Tue Oct 28 06:12:44 UTC 2014

Using wipefs you can see that it has the remnants of btrfs on the raw
/dev/sda because I am an idiot.

root at build:~# wipefs /dev/sda
offset               type
----------------------------------------------------------------
0x1fe                dos   [partition table]

0x10040              btrfs   [filesystem]
                     LABEL: jf-002-001
                     UUID:  50f898e6-febe-486e-b8c9-bf728d7935ac

It would be useful if during the upgrade grub checks for this and spits out a more useful warning at least and tells you to run wipefs -o 0x10040 /dev/xxx to eliminate the fs. Grub updated but now it says:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: warning: Couldn't find physical volume `(null)'. Some modules may be missing from core image..

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Title:
  Grub fails during upgrade due to lingering BTRFS information on drive

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.10
  Release:	14.10

  grub-pc:
    Installed: 2.02~beta2-15
    Candidate: 2.02~beta2-15
    Version table:
   *** 2.02~beta2-15 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  root at build:~# apt-get upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    g++-4.8 libept1.4.12 libgnutls28 libgssglue1 libstdc++-4.8-dev linux-headers-3.13.0-30 linux-headers-3.13.0-30-generic
    linux-image-3.13.0-30-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-30-generic
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  6 not fully installed or removed.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  Setting up linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic (3.16.0-23.31) ...
  Running depmod.
  update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later)
  initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-23-generic
  ) points to /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-23-generic
   (/boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-23-generic) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic.postinst line 491.
  vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic
  ) points to /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic
   (/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic.postinst line 491.
  Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
  run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.16.0-23-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic
  run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.16.0-23-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic
  run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.16.0-23-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-23-generic
  run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 3.16.0-23-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic
  run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 3.16.0-23-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic
  Generating grub configuration file ...
  grub-probe: error: disk `mduuid/1e540a9191a312e1958e545d8b42b984' not found.
  run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1
  Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic.postinst line 1025.
  dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
  Setting up friendly-recovery (0.2.26) ...
  Generating grub configuration file ...
  grub-probe: error: disk `mduuid/1e540a9191a312e1958e545d8b42b984' not found.
  dpkg: error processing package friendly-recovery (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Setting up grub-pc (2.02~beta2-15) ...
  Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version
  Generating grub configuration file ...
  grub-probe: error: disk `mduuid/1e540a9191a312e1958e545d8b42b984' not found.
  dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-extra-3.16.0-23-generic:
   linux-image-extra-3.16.0-23-generic depends on linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic; however:
    Package linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic is not configured yet.

  dpkg: error processing package linux-image-extra-3.16.0-23-generic (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
   linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic; however:
    Package linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic is not configured yet.
   linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-extra-3.16.0-23-generic; however:
    Package linux-image-extra-3.16.0-23-generic is not configured yet.

  dpkg: error processing package linux-image-generic (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic:
   linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 3.16.0.23.24); however:
    Package linux-image-generic is not cNo apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                         No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                       onfigured yet.

  dpkg: error processing package linux-generic (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic
   friendly-recovery
   grub-pc
   linux-image-extra-3.16.0-23-generic
   linux-image-generic
   linux-generic
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: grub-pc 2.02~beta2-15
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.15.0-6.11-generic 3.15.0
  Uname: Linux 3.15.0-6-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Oct 23 21:52:10 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-12-07 (1052 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-07-03 (112 days ago)
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-12-07 (1052 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
  Package: grub2 (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.15.0-6.11-generic 3.15.0
  Tags:  utopic
  Uname: Linux 3.15.0-6-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-07-03 (112 days ago)
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