Debian Bug report logs - #788062
os-prober corrupts LVs/partitions while being mounted inside a VM

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Package: os-prober; Maintainer for os-prober is Debian Install System Team <[email protected]>; Source for os-prober is src:os-prober (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Marcel Meckel <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 08:39:02 UTC

Severity: critical

Tags: patch

Merged with 648208, 794849, 806273, 810121

Found in versions os-prober/1.65, os-prober/1.42

Fixed in version os-prober/1.72

Done: Colin Watson <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Hi,

> update-grub on a vhost running qemu/kvm virtual machines
> while grub and os-prober is installed on the host might corrupt
> guest virtual machines / guest disks.

confirmed. This just tore Teckids' main infrastructure into pieces.

-nik

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