Your message dated Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:49:15 +0000 with message-id <e1qiulf-00fwum...@fasolo.debian.org> and subject line Bug#1031183: fixed in grub-installer 1.196 has caused the Debian Bug report #1031183, regarding grub-installer: postinst fails if efivarfs cannot be mounted to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: grub-installer Version: 1.186 Severity: important Hi, On systems where efivarfs cannot be mounted, the grub installation step fails even though it would have otherwise worked just fine skipping the mount efivarfs command, i.e. system installation is successful with this preseed file: d-i partman/early_command string sed -i 's/mountvirtfs efivarfs/#/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-installer.postinst The relevant code in d/postinst looks as follows, suggesting the intention to ignore failures: mountvirtfs efivarfs /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars || true However, mountvirtfs itself is exiting with 1 in case of mount errors: mountvirtfs () { fstype="$1" path="$2" if grep -q "[[:space:]]$fstype\$" /proc/filesystems && \ ! grep -q "^[^ ]\+ \+$path " /proc/mounts; then mkdir -p "$path" || \ die grub-installer/mounterr "Error creating $path" mount -t "$fstype" "$fstype" "$path" || \ die grub-installer/mounterr "Error mounting $path" trap "umount $path" HUP INT QUIT KILL PIPE TERM EXIT fi } I'm unsure as to what the best course of action is here, but perhaps an idea is to avoid calling "die" when mount fails for efivarfs, and log an error to /var/log/syslog instead? Of course the relevant umount should be skipped too. In any case, the "|| true" part in the mountvirtfs efivarfs call should probably be dropped. Please note that this issue is different from https://bugs.debian.org/933523. In that case, installing grub fails *because* efivarfs does not get mounted properly, and the surprising bit is that the mountvirtfs efivarfs call does *not* fail for some reason. :-) FTR here's the error I get trying to mount efivarfs manually: ~ # mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars mount: mounting efivarfs on /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars failed: Operation not supported Thanks! ema
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--- Begin Message ---Source: grub-installer Source-Version: 1.196 Done: Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of grub-installer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 1031...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> (supplier of updated grub-installer package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:51:31 +0200 Source: grub-installer Architecture: source Version: 1.196 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> Closes: 1031183 Changes: grub-installer (1.196) unstable; urgency=medium . * Team upload. . [ Updated translations ] * German (de.po) by Holger Wansing * Spanish (es.po) by gallegonovato * Hebrew (he.po) by Yaron Shahrabani * Indonesian (id.po) by Reza Almanda * Korean (ko.po) by Changwoo Ryu * Lithuanian (lt.po) by Rimas Kudelis * Norwegian Bokmal (nb.po) by Petter Reinholdtsen * Dutch (nl.po) by Frans Spiesschaert * Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (pa.po) by Aman Alam * Polish (pl.po) by Matthaiks * Portuguese (pt.po) by Miguel Figueiredo * Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_BR.po) by Adriano Rafael Gomes * Serbian (sr.po) by Filipovic Dragan * Swedish (sv.po) by Anders Jonsson * Simplified Chinese (zh_CN.po) by Boyuan Yang . [ Arnaud Rebillout ] * Don't fail if we can't mkdir efivars (Closes: #1031183) . [ Pascal Hambourg ] * grub-installer: propagate ignore_uefi flag to target system for os-prober . [ Pascal Hambourg & Philip Hands ] * Miscellaneous refactoring & code tidying relating to efivars changes Checksums-Sha1: e773eb9dc69f87ef250df3adf361a6525a592169 2137 grub-installer_1.196.dsc af0583bd4adc44e9240ff5a93818e280dcedb275 244728 grub-installer_1.196.tar.xz Checksums-Sha256: 6b3198938407d8bfe5bebd385d3a81b0030870c5e31e40d65067005dcc6e4b6b 2137 grub-installer_1.196.dsc 6da32503144a27803345de6e7ee1a3e8cc36c27ea6f29ec40bcbe55debc0a7da 244728 grub-installer_1.196.tar.xz Files: e077bd0f46f919f3d45d16f3dddd305d 2137 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.196.dsc 1546cdf110de54e5f3640c2174bcdbfa 244728 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.196.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJDBAEBCgAtFiEE3/FBWs4yJ/zyBwfW0EujoAEl1cAFAmUKyFoPHHBoaWxAaGFu ZHMuY29tAAoJENBLo6ABJdXA7X8QAMazzFMksZIzdOdojl4sxgeBF0odz7eYgrqL 8sXWqTXjaKoXVYsElfmjI3FqAvWPrVn0NLVgHvqBxEQTtM4yMC2G7q4HU+G4z+Fj Ah5uMrAil4QSs22KUyxddmd/IUZFCbikS0lfe/YaSwtklAdA6OxFzek0qUDDCjTh AsXweQZ9MF9d6ZKmnpMXQCN3qX60QbQqkW5wGabYiRe3abaZZ3QB9aqQBawkfEpk L0S+s4pbboVhoxXcDOg/Y90zsSB4+QSiLGl4m2tVwIU11E6XeqOqfsg80Dh7Idye A/dKJDu0eVHlPB0iTw5JH4/aJn7UzhifuRmrzyuuJgsld8doHhPVNOLh52BW39je F8sKOTsUbDdLwprQiX29xv8uo75dmAGH4BAvt6kEgcW3cEZQQgg5tAEYLCQkgPqC fht59sLOfhDa+oRwBp/OI8qxdJzi+GaZjczreJ/BQkRw9MCGUilKjQsWZf/DCCtW ByF3HvMi3JV/CSOAnFNAwtJ3kL7qtE55Pz/P+2qDkYb333199kKl7ComAN2Fwm0V ZBtczs5NyZS7Va8QjOhdTqoIvOGp9mB/Sn9FhdE8LFchm5YOjCfYUtBsVAqGSVpF gI0EdHWj9PdQqhrAn+HFfY3B8EEYFJVZXoUH1S9/ofdF437pWJXpS0oET6tOtQ6c pJOyJw5h =yhX/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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