Hello! On Sun, 2023-05-07 at 20:54 -0400, Ben Westover wrote: > When I ran apt upgrade on my iMac G3, the kernel and GRUB packages > failed to configure. The step that failed in each case was update-grub > or grub-install, which failed when trying to write to the /boot/grub HFS > partition because it's a "Read-only filesystem."
Please install the hfsprogs package, then run fsck.hfs on the affected partition. > It now makes sense why writing to the disk fails, as it seems any HFS > mount is automatically read-only, but why is this only now breaking > kernel upgrades? It can't have been a recent change to HFS mounting, > since my live environment's ISO was from December 2022. Does anyone know > what the problem here could be? It's a known problem and can be fixed by running fsck.hfs. In the future, it would be nice if we could switch the /boot/grub partition to FAT32 as it should be supported by the NewWorld firmware. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
