Ubuntu
grub2 package

  1. Bug #988583
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 988583

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Sébastien Bernard (sbernard) wrote : Re: [Bug 988583] Re: grub-mount hangs when update-grub is ran

Le 01/09/2012 02:43, Yonnel Bécognée a écrit :
> 5 days that I'm on this bug !
> I can't understand that it can works fine for some ones...
>
> "I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro 8.2 so that I can dualboot. Installation went fine and everything seems to be working great..."
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2046751
>
> "I installed Mountain Lion first then the latest version of refit followed by Windows 7 and all worked perfect. I then installed the latest desktop release of Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS x64 which again installed absolutely fine."
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2047663
>
> How does it's possible !!!
>
 Workaroud is to kill -9 grub-mount.
The exact report is it depends on the hf+ filesystem. Somtimes, the hfs
driver goes into an infinite loop while reading the metadata.

The exact condition under which this problem happens is unknow.

Seb