[Bug 2051999] Re: Grub2 2.06 has upstream bug that results in Non-booting with ZFS after snapshot of bpool.

[Rick S]

It worked:

The grub issue with a PPA solved it for NNoble
Code:

apt policy grub-common
grub-common:
  Installed: 2.12-1ubuntu1~ppa1
  Candidate: 2.12-1ubuntu1~ppa1
  Version table:
 *** 2.12-1ubuntu1~ppa1 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ubuntu-uefi-team/build/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.12~rc1-12ubuntu4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages


zfs list -r -t snapshot -o name,creation bpool
NAME                                      CREATION
bpool/BOOT/ubuntu_l7y21m at autozsys_bk6cdb  Fri Feb  2 10:41 2024
bpool/BOOT/ubuntu_l7y21m at autozsys_sin22d  Sat Feb  3 17:22 2024
bpool/BOOT/ubuntu_l7y21m at autozsys_41kebx  Sat Feb  3 17:23 2024
bpool/BOOT/ubuntu_l7y21m at autozsys_25r5is  Sun Feb  4 13:55 2024
bpool/BOOT/ubuntu_l7y21m at autozsys_1n6o7d  Sun Feb  4 14:07 2024
bpool/BOOT/ubuntu_l7y21m at 2-4-2024test     Sun Feb  4 14:09 2024

As seen by the bottom "bpool/BOOT/ubuntu_l7y21m at 2-4-2024test     Sun Feb
4 14:09 2024"

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Title:
  Grub2 2.06 has upstream bug that results in Non-booting with ZFS after
  snapshot of bpool.

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in grub2-unsigned package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in zfs-linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  There is an upstream Bug with Grub where if you create snapshots of bpool, it results in a non-booting System. The problem was found to be an upstream Bug with Grub2:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?64297

  Multiple Ubuntu 22.04.3 Users Affected:
  https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2494397&highlight=zfs+grub+bug
  https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2494957

  Brought up as an issue at OpenZFS:
  https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13873

  If you look at this comment (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13873#issuecomment-1892911836), if was found the Savanaugh at GNU released a fix for it in Grub2 2.12, here:
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/log/grub-core/fs/zfs/zfs.c

  Ubuntu Jammy 22.04.3 is Grub2 2.06. We need to backported this patch
  to Grub2 2.06 so that Users are not caught of in this bug for or
  currently supported LTS Release.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.06-2ubuntu14.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-39.40~22.04.1-generic 6.2.16
  Uname: Linux 6.2.0-39-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Thu Feb  1 16:40:28 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-09-23 (861 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819)
  SourcePackage: grub2-unsigned
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-08-17 (533 days ago)

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