[karmic-proposed] GRUB - warnings while installation - error: cannot open /dev/sd... while attempting to get disk size

[LimCore]

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

=== WORK AROUND ===
This errors seem to not cause any problems.
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

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
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

[LimCore (limcore)]

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.

[Markus Schulz (schulz-alpharesearch)]

I have the same issue... this adds +30 minutes for me to the distribution upgrade with grub2... my other pc with grub1 was OK