Package: grub-efi-amd64 Version: 2.06-13+deb12u1 Severity: critical Tags: upstream patch Justification: breaks the whole system
My system suddenly refused to start up grub. An error message flashed by, but too quickly for me to be able to see. Then I got the grub emergency prompt. Upon booting from a Debian live image to attempt to fix this, after chrooting into an appropriately-configured filesystem from the target (with bind-mount /proc, /sys, /dev, /boot/efi, etc), grub-install failed with: error: compression algorithm inherit not supported I'll note that "inherit" is not really a compression algorithm for ZFS. (root, and also boot, are part of ZFS on this system.) Upon researching this, I see that https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15261 discusses the problem. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13873 does as well. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13873#issuecomment-1905182760 suggests that it is the ZFS feature extensible_dataset that is responsible for this. That feature can get auto-enabled by other features at runtime. Both of these bugs indicate that grub 2.12 contains patches to fix the issue. Indeed, the four patches listed at https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/log/grub-core/fs/zfs/zfs.c pertaining to ZFS are thought to fix it. I have built a bookworm-backports version of grub 2.12 and it does indeed solve the problem. I think this issue justifies backporting those ZFS patches into the version in bookworm for stable-proposed-updates. Thanks! - John -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages grub-efi-amd64 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii grub-common 2.06-13+deb12u1 ii grub-efi-amd64-bin 2.06-13+deb12u1 ii grub2-common 2.06-13+deb12u1 ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1 grub-efi-amd64 recommends no packages. grub-efi-amd64 suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
