Re: [PATCH] zfs: fix LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE when grub-probe fails

[Tom Matthews]

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 08:27:14PM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> When grub-probe fails, the current code is to just stuff an empty result
>> in which causes the user to not knowingly have a system that no longer
>> boots. grub-probe can fail because the ZFS pool that contains the root
>> filesystem might have features that grub does not yet support which is a
>> common configuration for people with a rpool and a bpool. This behavior
>> uses the zdb utility to dump the same value as the filesystem label
>> would print.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
>
> For an unknown reason xgettext hangs during build after this patch.
> Could you check what is going on?
>
> Daniel

I just applied Dougs patch to the latest git master branch code,
and found no issue through any of the bootstrap, configure, or make stages.

Daniel, would you be able to try your build again with the patch please?

Tom