Bug 15962 – grub-install fails because sed-4.0.5 is incompatible with its sed expressions

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2003-02-18 17:52:58 UTC]

grub-install fails because sed-4.0.5 is incompatible with its sed expressions.
sed-3.x works fine however.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. grub-install /dev/floppy/0
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
# grub-install /dev/floppy/0
sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Invalid reference \1 on `s' command's RHS
sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Invalid reference \1 on `s' command's RHS
Unrecognized ls output: Not found or not a block device.

[Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-06-17 07:56:07 UTC]

please, we need to find somebody else to do grub.  i cant handle it right
now but maybe again in the future.

_so_ sorry Matthew to have left this for so long :(

[Comment 2 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2003-06-28 13:51:34 UTC]

Hey, I find this strange, because sed-4 afaik doesn't have any regressions in functionality from sed-3... have you tried with a more recent sed-4 series?

[Comment 3 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2003-07-07 03:47:42 UTC]

okay this is confirmed with sed-4.0.7 and also 4.0.5 by someone else encountering the same problem.

<li1_bastard> and i get this error
<li1_bastard> root # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/floppy/ '(fd0)'
<li1_bastard> sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Invalid reference \1 on `s' command's RHS
<li1_bastard> sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Invalid reference \1 on `s' command's RHS
<li1_bastard> Unrecognized ls output: Not found or not a block device.

[Comment 4 Cubittus 2003-08-14 15:38:40 UTC]

This was fixed in the grub CVS back on 19th Feb!

See http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/grub/grub/util/grub-install.in

Can someone please patch this in or update grub to a more recent snapshot?

[Comment 5 Bill Gjestvang 2003-11-07 00:40:01 UTC]

Created attachment 20364 [details, diff]
Fix the incompatible sed expressions in grub-install.in

This is the code change from grub CVS grub-install.in 1.38.
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/grub/grub/util/grub-install.in.diff?r1=1.37&r2=1.38

[Comment 6 Bill Gjestvang 2003-11-07 00:41:29 UTC]

Created attachment 20365 [details, diff]
The patch to the ebuild to use grub-0.93-grub-install-sed.patch

[Comment 7 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-12-13 22:14:44 UTC]

Matt et al,

is this still an issue?

[Comment 8 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2004-02-10 12:39:20 UTC]

Is this fixed in grub-0.94?

[Comment 9 Robert Moss (RETIRED) 2004-07-11 22:47:41 UTC]

This is certainly fixed in grub-0.95, so I'm adding bug #55732 as a dependency.

[Comment 10 Robert Moss (RETIRED) 2004-08-22 09:00:24 UTC]

This is fixed in grub-0.94. Closing. Please re-open if this is still an issue for anyone.

[Comment 11 Mike Heffner 2005-04-26 08:28:48 UTC]

Can this be fixed in "sys-boot/grub-static-0.93.20030118" or can grub-static be updated?

Currently, this is still broken for AMD64 users.