Bug#975417: Fails to parse /sys/dev/block links for NVMe devices, fixed upstream
Package: libefiboot1
Version: 37-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
libefiboot in stable and testing fails to parse symlinks such as:
/sys/dev/block/259:1 -> ../../devices/virtual/nvme-subsystem/nvme-subsys0/nvme0n1
which prevents tools such as grub-install and efibootmgr from working on
my system that has only NVMe drives, thus also preventing a successful
install of buster at the "install bootloader" stage of d-i.
The problem is fixed upstream here:
https://github.com/rhboot/efivar/pull/139
and that fix is already present in the version of libefiboot1 from
unstable (37-6). I have verified this by forcibly installing the .deb
from unstable on a buster system; this allows tools such as grub-install
and efibootmgr to work successfully.
Please can this fix be backported to buster so that an install is
possible?
Thanks,
Andy
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libefiboot1 depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libefivar1 37-2
libefiboot1 recommends no packages.
libefiboot1 suggests no packages.
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