[Bug 856391] New: grub2-reboot sets default boot entry permanently

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c0 Summary: grub2-reboot sets default boot entry permanently Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 13.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@suse.com ReportedBy: mihai.petracovici@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36 If I use grub2-reboot (either directly from the cmdline or from the kde restart button) to set a grub entry to boot into on the next boot, this setting is not cleared after a reboot. Rebooting multiple times still makes my machine boot into that entry and the grub menu is never displayed again. I have to clear the next_entry variable with grub2-editenv - unset next_entry in order to get my grub menu back. I am running openSUSE 13.1 installed alongside Windows on a GPT partitioned disk and using UEFI boot. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set a boot entry to boot on restart using grub2-reboot. For example, sudo grub2-reboot 'openSUSE 13.1, with Linux 3.10.20-1-desktop' 2. Reboot and it will boot into whatever entry you set before. 3. Reboot again. Actual Results: You still boot automatically into the entry set by grub2-reboot. You cannot get to the grub menu in any way. Expected Results: After the second reboot, the grub menu should have reappeared. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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19 Dec 19 Dec

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c Mihai Petracovici changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Major -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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20 Dec 20 Dec

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c Jiri Srain changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jsrain@suse.com |mchang@suse.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c1 --- Comment #1 from Michael Chang 2013-12-20 08:43:14 UTC --- That's because grub2 can't clear the flag due to no write support to the file system and LVM/mdadm. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c2 Mihai Petracovici changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #2 from Mihai Petracovici 2013-12-20 18:19:10 UTC --- Ah ok, I wasn't aware of that limitation in grub2. Thanks for pointing it out. I guess there really isn't anything I can do about it then. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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29 Dec 29 Dec

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c3 Will Stephenson changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |wstephenson@suse.com --- Comment #3 from Will Stephenson 2013-12-29 20:28:53 UTC --- How does LVM/mdadm come into play here? I have now seen this on a system with btrfs /boot, lvm/mdraid is only on some data disks which have nothing to do with grub. If we can identify the cases where grub2-reboot cannot be used, we can suppress it in the kdm reboot dialog -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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31 Dec 31 Dec

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c4 Andrey Borzenkov changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |arvidjaar@gmail.com --- Comment #4 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-12-31 06:15:51 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3)

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If we can identify the cases where grub2-reboot cannot be used, we can suppress it in the kdm reboot dialog

GRUB does not support - writing to non-physical disks (LVM, MD RAID, crypto) - blocklists (required to write environment file) on the following filesystems: afs, btrfs, exfat, HFS+ with compression, minix, squashfs, ufs2, zfs. So as long as /boot/grub2/grubenv file is located on any of these, grub2 cannot write into it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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19 Jan 19 Jan

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c5 Wolfgang Bauer changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |wbauer@tmo.at --- Comment #5 from Wolfgang Bauer 2014-01-19 00:11:52 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3)

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If we can identify the cases where grub2-reboot cannot be used, we can suppress it in the kdm reboot dialog

It would not suffice to suppress this in the kdm reboot dialog. As I just noticed, the same issue happens when you hibernate your system, because /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99Zgrub calls grub2-once to set the default boot entry to the hibernated Linux system, and that in turn also calls grub2-reboot to do the actual work. So if this is going to be suppressed, it should be done in grub2-reboot itself instead, I think. PS: Why is this bug report marked as INVALID? IMHO this is a valid issue. By choosing a Windows boot entry in KDE's restart dialog you effectively lock yourself out of your Linux system and need a LiveCD or similar to repair that. Shouldn't it be reopened? Or should I maybe open a new bug about the hibernate issue? (but it is the same in the end) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c6 Wolfgang Bauer changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CLOSED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | --- Comment #6 from Wolfgang Bauer 2014-01-19 00:22:31 UTC --- Reopened as per comment#5. Please feel free to close again if you don't agree. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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20 Jan 20 Jan

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c7 --- Comment #7 from Michael Chang 2014-01-20 03:01:29 UTC --- A quick workaround is use boot script to reset this flag. Anyone here would oppose this ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c8 --- Comment #8 from Andrey Borzenkov 2014-01-20 04:34:02 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7)

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A quick workaround is use boot script to reset this flag. Anyone here would oppose this ?

That will work for suspend to disk only. For grub-reboot into Window this script never gets chance to run, because grub will always boot Windows without any timeout. I can think of - block grub-reboot for known cases. Only partial solution - missing functionality and does not help if user manually sets variable - support checking e.g. Pressed SHIFT on boot and display menu. Not sure what it involves and how portable it is. Of course, we still need to reset this flag after we managed to boot openSUSE. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c9 --- Comment #9 from Andrey Borzenkov 2014-01-20 05:41:20 UTC --- One more possibility is to not reset timeout to 0 if writing grubenv failed. This will leave user with menu that can be used to reboot into Linux. It has two problems - it is not obvious to user, why menu is displayed, and there was problem that GRUB highlighted wrong menu entry making it even more confusing (I believe it should be fixed in current master and hence in Factory). Unfortunately I do not see any real fix for it at all, at least using filesystem as a store. Anything would be just a workaround. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391#c10 Fabian Vogt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fabian@ritter-vogt.de --- Comment #10 from Fabian Vogt 2014-04-02 17:33:40 UTC --- A workaround is better than nothing. After I hibernate my triple-boot system, I don't have the boot menu anymore and have to rm /boot/grub2/grubenv. I commented out the load_env in /etc/grub.d/00_header as a workaround. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 Lars Müller changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lmuelle@suse.com --- Comment #12 from Lars Müller --- I see the same with openSUSE 13.2 too (grub2-2.02~beta2-20.5.1). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856391 --- Comment #19 from Swamp Workflow Management --- openSUSE-RU-2014:1563-1: An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Category: recommended (moderate) Bug References: 856391 CVE References: Sources used: openSUSE 13.1 (src): pm-utils-1.4.1-33.9.1 openSUSE 12.3 (src): pm-utils-1.4.1-26.25.1 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

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