Bug#804175: os-prober tries to read the filesystem on an extended partition
Package: os-prober
Version: 1.70
Severity: normal
Hi,
The problem is that os-prober is trying to identify the file system on the extended partition, which reports an error.
--from messages file--
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda2
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.737874] XFS (sda2): Invalid superblock magic number
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.740161] FAT-fs (sda2): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.740913] FAT-fs (sda2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.741845] FAT-fs (sda2): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.742570] FAT-fs (sda2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.745978] MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.747068] attempt to access beyond end of device
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.747071] sda2: rw=16, want=3, limit=2
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.747072] hfsplus: unable to find HFS+ superblock
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian kernel: [ 3584.758411] hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda2
Nov 5 20:41:53 debian os-prober: debug: /dev/sda5: is active swap
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-22
os-prober recommends no packages.
os-prober suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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