Hey, Adding Lidong...
Sebastian, Lidong is working on a fix for this issue. Lidong, please keep Sebastain in the loop. Daniel On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 03:41:55PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > Package: grub2 > Version: 2.12~rc1-9 > Severity: Serious > control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64376 > > I have a single XFS partition which contains the root filesystem and the > boot partition. Since the recent upgrade to the 2.12 series I can't boot > anymore because grub complains that it can't find normal.mod and remains in > the rescue shell. > The ls command kind of works. A ls in /boot/grub/i386-pc/ (where the > normal.mod should be) shows a few files and then abort with the error > message: 'error: invalid XFS directory entry'. > > I figured out that if I remove that directory and create a new one only > with normal.mod then it was able to find it and complained about onother file. > I then repeated the game until I had more files… The invocation of > grub-install > copied all files and broke it again. > > I then looked at various places and stumbled uppon > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64376 and this indeed matches what I see. > I rebuilt the grub2 package with commit ef7850c757fb3 ("fs/xfs: Fix > issues found while fuzzing the XFS filesystem") reverted, installed from > a rescue system and voila it boots again. > > My xfs filesystem is a normal v5 as in: > | # xfs_info /dev/sdb1 > | meta-data=/dev/sdb1 isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=655360 blks > | = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1 > | = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=1 > | = reflink=1 bigtime=0 inobtcount=0 > nrext64=0 > | data = bsize=4096 blocks=2621440, imaxpct=25 > | = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks > | naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0, ftype=1 > | log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=3693, version=2 > | = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1 > | realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 > > Sebastian
