Bug#975417: Fails to parse /sys/dev/block links for NVMe devices, fixed upstream

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for reporting this.

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 09:16:14PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>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?

I've prepped an update but I don't have any machines that show the
problem in the first place to be able to verify 100%. Could I ask you
to please try the package versions from

  https://people.debian.org/~93sam/efivar/

and confirm that they're good for you?

Cheers,

Steve

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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