See attached file with output from both commands. On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:50 PM Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alright; I think I've finally made some progress on this. > > Turns out "Block device required" is really a red herring. It's some > random value (15) used in efibootmgr code, for any number of causes for > failure. We can't read anything into it. > > The real error in indeed "Invalid argument", and very much at the point > where things are trying to delete the variable. It's either at deleting > the variable itself, or updating BootOrder. > > Could you please run the following command, so as to give us more > information to address this issue? > > sudo strace -ff efibootmgr -b 0000 -B > > Could you also run: > > ls -l /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ > > This will give us more information to hopefully fix this issue. > > It seems like you're also seeing this on a Dell XPS 13 (9343), seemingly > with BIOS revision A15. Judging from > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed/+bug/1753518/comments/32; > there's a BIOS A18 available from Dell that might address the issue. > Now, I'm not absolutely certain that the new *revision* fixes the issue, > but updating the firmware might clear things that would fix this. That's > partly why we need the extra information (so please run the commands > above before updating BIOS). > > ** Package changed: grub2-signed (Ubuntu Disco) => efibootmgr (Ubuntu > Disco) > > ** Changed in: efibootmgr (Ubuntu Disco) > Status: Triaged => Incomplete > > ** Summary changed: > > - Grub2 Failed to install "efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: > Block device required." > + [master] Grub2 Failed to install "efibootmgr failed to register the boot > entry: Block device required." > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (1801575). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805490 > > Title: > [master] Grub2 Failed to install "efibootmgr failed to register the > boot entry: Block device required." > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/efibootmgr/+bug/1805490/+subscriptions
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