On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 04:58:06PM +0200, Thomas Schneider wrote: >Package: grub-common >Version: 2.04-1 >Severity: important > >-- Detailed issue description >After finalizing Debian installation I installed additional packages to make >usage of Btrfs' snapshot functionality: >- btrfs-progs >- snapper > >Then I started installation of package "reportbug": >apt install reportbug > >Snapper automatically created a snapshot pre and post the installation. This >is exactly what is expected. > >Then I initiated rollback of this installation: >snapper rollback 3 >(where 3 represents the snapshot ID of the pre snapshot). > >This created another 2 snapshots with ID 5 and 6; snapshot 6 becomes the new >default snapshot then. >To verify the new default snapshot I use this syntax: btrfs su get-default / >and this correctly returns this: >ID 272 gen 3658 top level 261 patch @snapshots/6/snapshot > >This is the time to reboot the system. > >However, when system is back from reboot the package "reportbug" is still >installed; I verified this simply by entering this: apt-cache policy r >eportbug > >Please check attached screenshots documenting these steps and the current >Grub menu commands.
Hi Thomas, Could you please explain why you think this is a problem in the Grub packages? You've created a snapshot, but not configured Grub to use it. If snapper is meant to make this work automatically, then it sounds like there is missing functionality in snapper? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back