Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 09:50:23PM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Package: grub-common
> Version: 2.12~rc1-9
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> my root filesystem (including /boot) is mounted read-only, which makes the
> service grub-common fail:
> 
> ```text
> % journalctl -b -u grub-common
> Sep 08 21:15:44 systemd[1]: Starting grub-common.service - Record successful 
> boot for GRUB...
> Sep 08 21:15:44 grub-editenv[865]: grub-editenv: Fehler: »/boot/grub/grubenv« 
> kann nicht geöffnet werden: Das Dateisystem ist nur lesbar.
> Sep 08 21:15:44 systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Main process exited, 
> code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Sep 08 21:15:44 systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Failed with result 
> 'exit-code'.
> Sep 08 21:15:44 systemd[1]: Failed to start grub-common.service - Record 
> successful boot for GRUB.
> ```
> 
> I've added an additional condition:
> 
> ```text
> [Unit]
> ConditionPathIsReadWrite=/boot/grub/gruben
> ```

Write access to the file is a necessity of recording a successful
boot, and hence a failure is the correct outcome here, otherwise
you don't notice the failure.

A write-only /boot should be considered unsupported.

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