Bug 568222 – sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16 fails to boot

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Patrick Lauer 2015-12-14 12:25:59 UTC]

After update only "GRUB" is shown on screen and no further progress.

Running grub-install from sysrescuecd fixes, so older versions do not exhibit this failure mode.

Device is a Lenovo X250 notebook with primary disk configured as GPT.


Portage 2.2.26 (python 2.7.11-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r1, 4.3.0-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-4.3.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-5600U_CPU_@_2.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    16125132 total,  11313420 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:00:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p42
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p42::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.22.0::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.11::gentoo, 3.4.3-r5::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.4.1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.19.1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.9::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.12.6::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.9.3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.22-r1::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

x-overlay
    location: /home/patrick/code/overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

adjust
    location: /home/patrick/code/adjust/gentoo-overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 1

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gpm iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kde kipi lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit postgres postproc ppds qt3support qt4 readline sdl seccomp semantic-desktop session spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vdpau vorbis wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="32 64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2015-12-15 17:13:14 UTC]

The -O0 hack (which is the only thing different from -r14, aside from potentially newer ncurses and other dependencies) has been removed in -r17 in favour of a proper patch to fix the runtime isssues detailed in bug 564890;  with testing hopefully this will restore expected behaviour at bootup as well.

I will try and configure a testbed to try locally, but if you beat me too it please let me know if it works.

[Comment 2 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2015-12-17 03:04:21 UTC]

I just did a GPT+MBR test with a standard stable amd64 system, and it succeeded fine with -r16.  I even attempted to run a mixed -r14 and -r16 (ie, what happens if you don't update the stage1) and it worked without issue.

Unfortunately I don't know what to do to try and reproduce this failure.  Any suggestions you may have would be a big help.  Mayhaps it was simply due to a one-off bad grub-install result??

Either way i suggest testing -r17.  If you can report back it's success or failure I would very much appreciate it!

[Comment 3 David W Noon 2016-01-02 17:56:24 UTC]

I also had this problem on an all-stable 32-bit system. I had to use the grub shell from SystemRescueCD to reinstate the bootstrap with the usual root/setup command sequence.

This is on an old AMD Athlon MP box with an ISA BIOS and using traditional partition tables. The BIOS would load grub and then hang with GRUB on the screen.

[Comment 4 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2016-01-05 00:12:53 UTC]

(In reply to David W Noon from comment #3)
> I also had this problem on an all-stable 32-bit system. I had to use the
> grub shell from SystemRescueCD to reinstate the bootstrap with the usual
> root/setup command sequence.
> 
> This is on an old AMD Athlon MP box with an ISA BIOS and using traditional
> partition tables. The BIOS would load grub and then hang with GRUB on the
> screen.

Thanks for reporting!

Could you provide the use flags to grub:0?  Also, did you try the -r17 version and if so did it work any better?

[Comment 5 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2019-02-08 15:23:40 UTC]

grub:0 is gone