Control: reassign -1 grub2-common Hi Kibi!
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:16:54AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Package: shim-signed-common >Version: 1.33+15+1533136590.3beb971-7 >Severity: important > >Hi, > >This system was initially installed with jessie with grub-pc on MBR, >upgraded to stretch, switched to grub-efi-amd64 on UEFI (to handle >bigger disks), and that was working rather fine. > >Upgrading to buster, I'm now seeing this when trying to configure the >shim-signed-common package. I'm enclined to think it might be a GRUB >issue instead, but I'm filing this against the affected package anyway >since I don't know any better (maybe shim-* is triggering some GRUB >issue…) at the moment. This is definitely an issue from grub-install rather than shim*. It's Colin's new code in grub-install that's throwing errors. As to why, I'm not sure I'm afraid... > Setting up shim-signed-common (1.33+15+1533136590.3beb971-7) ... > Installing for x86_64-efi platform. > File descriptor 3 (pipe:[21154245]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID > 3633: grub-install > File descriptor 3 (pipe:[21154245]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID > 3633: grub-install > grub-install: warning: efivarfs_get_variable: > open(/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/blk0-47c7b225-c42a-11d2-8e57-00a0c969723b): No > such file or directory. > grub-install: warning: efi_get_variable: ops->get_variable failed: No such > file or directory. > grub-install: warning: efi_va_generate_file_device_path_from_esp: could > not open device for ESP: Bad address. > grub-install: warning: efi_generate_file_device_path_from_esp: could not > generate File DP from ESP: Bad address. > grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Bad address. > dpkg: error processing package shim-signed-common (--configure): > installed shim-signed-common package post-installation script subprocess > returned error exit status 1 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of shim-signed:amd64: > shim-signed:amd64 depends on shim-signed-common (= > 1.33+15+1533136590.3beb971-7); however: > Package shim-signed-common is not configured yet. > > dpkg: error processing package shim-signed:amd64 (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > shim-signed-common > shim-signed:amd64 > >Feel free to let me know if you'd rather see me file a bug report >against one of the GRUB binary instead… I'd say reassign to grub2-common; that's where grub-install comes from. Doing that now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back

