Package: efibootmgr Version: 0.11.0-3 Severity: important Tags: upstream Hi,
I've seen a growing number of people reporting efibootmgr failing with ENOSPC when trying to add new boot entries, e.g. on grub-efi upgrades. It's a worrying trend, and users are ending up with unbootable systems (hence the severity). #852513 is a great example. Norbert has done an excellent job of investigating the problem (thankfully) and in his case this seems to be a problem with the pstore filling up. Maybe this is the cause of a number of these problems (e.g. #756253). With ENOSPC error, at the very least, we should: * warn users that their system may fail to boot * give some ideas on what might be the cause * suggest ways to investigate and/or fix the problem We could even check for files in /sys/fs/pstore and complain if they're taking up too much space, maybe? -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages efibootmgr depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7 ii libefivar0 0.15-3 ii libpci3 1:3.2.1-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 efibootmgr recommends no packages. efibootmgr suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
