grub-setup crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()

[Antonio D'Argenio]

Binary package hint: grub2

Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: grub-pc 1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 10 01:11:38 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/grub-setup
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcCmdline: grub-setup /dev/sda2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x804c500: repz cmpsb %es:(%edi),%ds:(%esi)
 PC (0x0804c500) ok
 source "%es:(%edi)" (0x080760c0) ok
 destination "%ds:(%esi)" (0x0000007b) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: grub2
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: grub-setup crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #386802, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.