[Bug 1509570] Re: efivar-0.21 fails to create boot entry when device min number > 127, breaks efibootmgr

[Mario Limonciello]

This has been fixed in the current version in 16.04 per that upstream
commit.  16.04 is carrying 0.23 release.

** Changed in: efivar (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  efivar-0.21 fails to create boot entry when device min number > 127,
  breaks efibootmgr

Status in efivar package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This bug has also been reported and fixed on github, but is present in
  the version of libefivar0 present in Ubuntu 15.10:

  https://github.com/rhinstaller/efivar/issues/33

  This bug breaks efibootmgr when trying to setup an EFI boot entry for
  a device with a minor number > 127:

  E.g.

  $ sudo efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sdk --part 1 --label "GRUB2 Shim" --loader "\\EFI\\ubuntu\\shimx64.efi"
  efibootmgr: Could not set variable: No such file or directory
  efibootmgr: Could not prepare boot variable: No such file or directory

  $ lsblk
  NAME    MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
  sdk       8:160  1   3.8G  0 disk  
  └─sdk1    8:161  1     1G  0 part  /boot/efi

  This also seems to break Ubuntu 15.10 upgrades and install on system
  where the EFI boot device has a minor number >127.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: libefivar0 0.21-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct 23 17:41:28 2015
  Dependencies:
   gcc-5-base 5.2.1-22ubuntu2
   libc6 2.21-0ubuntu4
   libgcc1 1:5.2.1-22ubuntu2
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-27 (544 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: efivar
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-23 (0 days ago)

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