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Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

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On 2019-01-14 20:20:49 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 14/01/2019 à 11:09, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
> > On 2019-01-14 11:06:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > On 2019-01-08 20:12:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > > This issue is not specific to lilo. It would affect grub-pc updates too,
> > > > because the boot device is specified by device id.
> > > > 
> > > > For example on my system :
> > > > $ debconf-show grub-pc
> > > > (...)
> > > > * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1200BEVE-00WZT0_...
> > > > 
> > > > The issue would happen less often - only when updating the grub-pc
> > > > package instead of on any kernel update - but it would still happen.
> > > 
> > > ... which was what happened to me a few days ago!
> > 
> > BTW, a display bug in the terminal made the problem worse, because
> > I could not select a device for GRUB installation. So, currently,
> > new GRUB versions are no longer installed.
> 
> Which display bug ?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919029

> During the system installation ?

During grub upgrade, when (re-)configuring due to the udev bug.

> You can install new versions of GRUB by hand with
> 
> # grub-install /dev/disk/by-id/...

Yes, but one issue is one may not know where GRUB was installed
in the first place (ditto with the other methods).

> Or you can reconfigure grub-pc with
> 
> # dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc

which yields the display issue... unless I increase the terminal
window size *before* I run this command.

> If the display bug is still present in the default "dialog" (curses-like)
> front-end, you can try to use the "readline" (command line-like) front-end
> with "--frontend=readline" when running dpkg-reconfigure.

OK, thanks, I didn't know.

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/dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Johan en Katrien Dewaele <jenkdewaele2@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-06 11:40 +0100
  Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-06 14:40 +0100
    Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-06 15:50 +0100
    Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-06 16:10 +0100
  Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-07 15:30 +0100
    Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-07 16:00 +0100
      Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 19:10 +0100
        Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Johan en Katrien Dewaele <jenkdewaele2@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-08 13:00 +0100
          Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-08 18:40 +0100
          Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-08 20:20 +0100
            Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2019-01-14 11:10 +0100
              Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2019-01-14 11:20 +0100
                Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-14 20:30 +0100
                Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2019-01-15 19:50 +0100
  Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2019-01-14 11:10 +0100

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