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

[Mate Kukri]

Hi Mike,

Do you happen to know what changes to GRUB the "patch 2 weeks ago"
refers to? I am not seeing any ZFS related changes in the GRUB tree 2
weeks ago, and that Savannah ticket is also many months old.

Nonetheless, Noble is getting a GRUB 2.12 release very soon (which is based on a lot newer upstream than 2.12~rc1), which should include any remotely recent ZFS changes. And according to the OpenZFS issue page linked from Savannah, also resolves this particular issue. Supported stable releases are also planned to get backports of GRUB 2.12 sometime after NN gets released.
 
I wonder if there is any scenario where users can experience breakage without manually enabling bpool snapshotting? Because I feel like we need some sort of solid justification to have a cherry-pick SRU of 2.06 with the ZFS commits right now.


** Also affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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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:
  New
Status in grub2-unsigned 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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