#795100 os-prober: It hangs on kernel package upgrade, making impossible to generate a correct ramdisk

Package:
os-prober
Source:
os-prober
Description:
utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
Submitter:
mansiweb
Date:
2015-08-10 15:45:10 UTC
Severity:
important
#795100#5
Date:
2015-08-10 15:36:47 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

today upgrading the kernel on a server having many FC connected disk I
got grub-mount stuck when trying to mount a logical volume used by
another machine. I got a process in D state, the ramdisk was not
created, I had to stop apt-get by means of kill -9 and I was risking
to have an unbootable server.

I had to remove it to correctly complete the kernel upgrate.

The server was installed selecting just SSH server in tasksel and I do
not uderstand why this package is installed. I cannot understand why a
server installation has to probe all available disk for other
operating systems, a server is never installed as dual boot, and there
is no reason to check for other OS, that's a desktop/laptop feature.

Please remove this package form standard installation and put it only
when user select a desktop environment or a laptop.