Hi,

It is because the new blkid can now recognize the extened partion, but os-prober relies on the return value "2" (exit_not_found) of blkid to skip processing the extended partition.

# fdisk -l ... Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 252847034 126423486 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 252847035 625137344 186145155 5 Extended /dev/sda5 252847098 253425374 289138+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 385254828 482913899 48829536 83 Linux ...

blkid 2.24-2 --- # blkid /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="28b48ca1-02" # echo $? 0

# blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/sda2 # no output # echo $? 0

blkid 2.20.0 --- # blkid /dev/sda2 # no output # echo $? 2 # blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/sda2 # no output # echo $? 2

Affected os-prober code: --- File: /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests - 8 types="$(fs_type "$partition")" || types=NOT-DETECTED 9 if [ "$types" = NOT-DETECTED ]; then 10 debug "$1 type not recognised; skipping" 11 exit 0

With old blkid, os-prober will just skip here when handling /dev/sda2, but with the current version of blkid, os-prober will go on and try to mount /dev/sda2 with FS types found in the system, which causes lots of errors, even kernel calltrace when trying xfs, on my machine.

I think there are three ways to sovlve this:

1. change the way that os-prober detects devices. 2. make blkid return an error code when # blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/sdaX returns no proper result. 3. use the old version of blkid (util-linux).

What do you guys think?

-ken