[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs
Still relevant on Ubuntu 20.04. Bug started 9 years ago =) No one cares. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs
Same in 13.10 with btrfs! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs
Hi - I'm seeing the same issue with my new install. Ubuntu 12.04 - on boot-up: sparse file not allowed. This is a BTRFS boot partition on a 64 bit architecture . thanks ~sina -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs
Sina, please read before posting on bugs, especially my last comment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
Wouldn't the fix to be to mark the /boot directory using btrfs tools as not able to create sparse files? Or do that on kernel posthook? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
** No longer affects: grub -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
This bug is specific to resierfs. Comment #12 points to the bug for btrfs. ** Summary changed: - error: sparse file not allowed + error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed with reiserfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
The same problem on Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 beta 2 - 64bit, btrfs filesystem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
Confirm The same problem on Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2 - 64bit, btrfs filesystem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
I installed Precise today, using one partition for swap and one for my btrfs. I'm using encrypted home. Installed from a usb stick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
The same problem on Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1 - 64bit, btrfs filesystem.. :-( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
Same thing. Installing Ubuntu 12.04 from a USB Stick to HD formated with btrfs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
Same problem after installing Ubuntu 12.04 from a USB Stick to HD formated with btrfs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
Also on Ubuntu 11.10 x86, btrfs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/464743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
Also on Kubuntu 11.04 amd64, btrfs #12 ** Also affects: grub Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
The new bug, relating to btrfs, is bug 736743. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
Hi Collin, I have the same symptom on my natty too. If it's a different bug, can you replay with the new bug id??? Thanks in Advance -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
This is also happening in Natty No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu Natty (development branch) Release:11.04 Codename: natty grub2: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu1 Version table: 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu1 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 Title: error: sparse file not allowed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
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[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.98-1ubuntu1 --- grub2 (1.98-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low * Resynchronise with Debian (bug-fixes relative to previous snapshot release). Remaining changes: - Adjust for default Ubuntu boot options (quiet splash). - Default to hiding the menu; holding down Shift at boot will show it. - Set a monochromatic theme for Ubuntu. - Apply Ubuntu GRUB Legacy changes to legacy update-grub script: title, recovery mode, quiet option, tweak how memtest86+ is displayed, and use UUIDs where appropriate. - Conflict with grub ( 0.97-54) as well as grub-legacy. - Fix backslash-escaping in merge_debconf_into_conf. - Remove GNU/Linux from default distributor string. - Add crashkernel= options if kdump and makedumpfile are available. - If other operating systems are installed, then automatically unhide the menu. Otherwise, if GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is 0, then use keystatus if available to check whether Shift is pressed. If it is, show the menu, otherwise boot immediately. If keystatus is not available, then fall back to a short delay interruptible with Escape. - Allow Shift to interrupt 'sleep --interruptible'. - Don't display introductory message about line editing unless we're actually offering a shell prompt. Don't clear the screen just before booting if we never drew the menu in the first place. - Remove some verbose messages printed before reading the configuration file. - Suppress progress messages as the kernel and initrd load for non-recovery kernel menu entries. - Keep the loopback file open so that subsequent changes to the root environment variable don't affect it. - Change prepare_grub_to_access_device to handle filesystems loop-mounted on file images. - Ignore devices loop-mounted from files in 10_linux. - Show the boot menu if the previous boot failed, that is if it failed to get to the end of one of the normal runlevels. - Handle RAID devices containing virtio components. - Improve DM-RAID probing support. - Don't generate /boot/grub/device.map during grub-install by default. - Store grub-pc/install_devices as persistent device names under /dev/disk/by-id/. - Change priority to optional to match the priority of grub. - Shave eight bytes off the pre-partition-table part of boot.img. - Don't display GRUB loading unless Shift is held down. - Adjust versions of grub-doc and grub-legacy-doc conflicts to tolerate our backport of the grub-doc split. - Optimise hostdisk device handling, substantially speeding up grub-probe filesystem reads. grub2 (1.98-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release (closes: #572898). - Fix grub-script-check to handle empty lines (closes: #572302). - Fix offset computation when reading last sectors. Partition reads and writes within and outside a partition (closes: #567469, #567884). - Fix script execution error handling bug that meant that an error in a menuentry's last statement caused the whole menuentry to fail (closes: #566538, LP: #464743). - Support GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX (closes: #536453, LP: #416772). [ Samuel Thibault ] * Add GRUB_INIT_TUNE example to /etc/default/grub (closes: #570340). [ Colin Watson ] * Build-depend on libusb-dev so that grub-emu is reliably built with USB support (closes: #572854). * Update directions in debian/rules on exporting grub-extras to account for it being maintained in Bazaar nowadays. * Add myself to Uploaders. * Acknowledge NMUs, thanks to Torsten Landschoff and Julien Cristau. grub2 (1.98~20100128-1.2) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * Stop setting gfxpayload=keep (closes: #567245). grub2 (1.98~20100128-1.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * Apply trivial patch (already merged upstream) fixing the offset computation for non-cached reads (closes: #567637). -- Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:18:14 + ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- error: sparse file not allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
I had the same issue. I use reiserfs too. With reiserfs you can mount the filesystem with notail option Indeed, adding -o notail after mount in the command fixes it. See also the note about the notail option in the man page of mount. But the following pages (at least) do not mention it : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover%20Grub%202%20via%20LiveCD I think they should. But (again) they are difficult to edit. -- error: sparse file not allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
This is still broken, and it's quite a serious matter because when I
upgrade the machine (which sometimes overwrites /boot/grub/grub.cfg) and
reboot, I lose access to it. It can't boot unless someone is physically
present with the machine, who can remove the lines
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
from the boot script. Frequently, there's nobody where the machine is,
so it remains totally useless, while chewing up watt-hours, with Error:
sparse file not allowed displayed on the console.
Is there something I can do to help debug this mystery? I'd be happy to
do what I can to help!
Linux qat 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:02:15 UTC 2009 x86_64
GNU/Linux
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Re: [Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
Am Samstag, den 12.12.2009, 19:31 + schrieb Steve Newcomb: Is there something I can do to help debug this mystery? I'd be happy to do what I can to help! With reiserfs you can mount the filesystem with notail option. Then delete /boot/grub/grubenv and create it again with `sudo grub-editenv create' Maybe there's some way to tell the system to create the env file without tail packing Hm or we should just revert the change of Okuji to make it only 1024 bytes big instead of initial 8192. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- error: sparse file not allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
I have a similar bug after running
grub-install /dev/sde
update-grub
It doesn't seem to matter how many times I run these commands, unlike
billBear's experience. Booting doesn't happen until I get rid of those
two lines that are identified above:
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
I am running reiserfs on a raid5 (/dev/md1) mounted on /.
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[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
I backed up a 9.10 install ( without backing up /boot/grub ), then restored the backup to a reiserfs partition on another machine, and chroot into it to run grub-install /dev/sda and update-grub. After reboot I saw this: error: sparse file not allowed Failed to boot default entries. Even worse, I can not enter the grub2 command line. Booted from CD I removed those two lines Kevin mentioned and ubuntu boots ok. After booting into ubuntu i ran grub-install /dev/sda and update-grub and everything went ok. I tried to repeat the process: restored the backup ( without /boot/grub ) to a reiserfs partition on another machine, and chroot into it to run grub-install /dev/sda TWICE and then update-grub, it boots ok. on other filesystems, ext2,3,4,xfs,jfs, grub-install only once will work, but reiser need to do this twice. I have had similar problems with grub 0.97 on reiserfs, grub-install also need to run twice. -- error: sparse file not allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed
I have a simple partitioning scheme, one root and one swap. The root partition is: /dev/sda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) -- error: sparse file not allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
