grub-probe crashed with SIGSEGV

[jpfle]

Binary package hint: grub2

I updated from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 10.10. During the update process, there were errors with grub, something like:

>Generating grub.cfg...
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)

After the update process and before rebooting, I tried to update grub in a terminal:

sudo update-grub

but the same errors occurred. So I manually created the file /boot/grub/device.map with the following content:

hd0) /dev/sda

then I done:

sudo update-grub

without any errors. I successfully rebooted, but there was this error notification in my systray.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: grub-common 1.98+20100804-5ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 29 23:21:07 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/grub-probe
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device /dev/sda1 --target=drive
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_CA:fr:fr_BE:fr_FR:fr_LU:fr_CH:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xc6215a: cmp (%edx),%al
 PC (0x00c6215a) ok
 source "(%edx)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: grub2
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
Title: grub-probe crashed with SIGSEGV
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 __strcmp_ia32 () from /lib/libc.so.6
 compare_devices (a=0x9e846b0, b=0x9e846b8)
 msort_with_tmp (p=<value optimized out>,
 msort_with_tmp (p=<value optimized out>,
 msort_with_tmp (p=<value optimized out>,

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