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Re: Bug#660670: lenny->squeeze: UUID configuration lists several unrelated devices, and incorrectly



reassign 660670 linux-base 2.6.32-41
kthxbye

Reassigning to the relevant package.

Cheers,
Julien

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:33:33 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:

> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: normal
> 
> When upgrading an old system from lenny to squeeze, I encountered the
> dialog from linux-base about changing system configuration to use UUIDs.
> 
> The first section ("These devices will be assigned UUIDs or labels:")
> correctly showed /dev/hda1 (my root filesystem) and the UUID assigned to
> it.
> 
> The second section ("These configuration files will be updated:")
> correctly showed the list of configuration files this change would
> update.
> 
> However, the third section ("The device IDs will be changed as
> follows:") contained several confusing and possibly incorrect bits of
> information.  First, it listed /dev/hdc as changing to /dev/cdrom, which
> doesn't seem related to UUIDs or labels.  Second, it showed /dev/hda2
> (my swap device), which didn't appear in the previous sections, and in
> addition to showing a UUID for it, the line right after /dev/hda2
> showed:
> + PATH=pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0
> 
> At first glance that looked like the results of incorrectly parsing the
> output of a command, leaving me concerned that this would incorrectly
> edit one of my configuration files to contain that appended to a UUID.
> 
> - Josh Triplett
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> 
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