Bug#1031325: e2fsprogs 1.47.0 introduces a breaking change into Bookworm, breaking grub and making installations of Ubuntu and Debian releases via debootstrap impossible
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 08:02:11PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
>...
> Most server providers have exctly *one*
> rescue system from where I can do a clean installation with deboostrap
> (and that even usually is a Debian). I cannot choose to use one that
> hasn't an e2fsprogs that has this breaking change enabled. Say for
> example, grml, used by multiple providers I know as rescue system and
> based on Debian, picks up Bookworm with e2fsprogs with that change. Now
> users trying to install anything other than a Debian Bookworm using the
> deboostrap method will run into the situation that "grub-install" will
> fail, and it won't even indicate that they will have to tune the just
> created ext4 filesystem or even change /etc/mke2fs.conf.
>...
You are saying that a bug report is needed against grml-debootstrap for
disabling metadata_csum_seed in <= bullseye?
The fix would likely be right next to the code that disables the new
metadata_csum default in stretch for <= jessie where it was not supported.
> Daniel
cu
Adrian
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