Hello, On Tue 24 Jun 2025 at 11:31pm +02, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 05:25:07PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: >> > - dpkg -s grub2-common >> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 5a98abefbfe97dbed36db7899251e433 >> /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 5a98abefbfe97dbed36db7899251e433 > > So at least you now have the correct files. Well, they're not installed at those paths, only the *.dpkg-dist still. >> > - ls -alR /etc >> Hmm, that feels like something of a privacy breach. >> Could you narrow it down? > > This was more fishing for possibly other lost conffiles, aka > "*.dpkg-dist", or other weird stuff. Okay. There is also /etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook.dpkg-dist. >> > - zgrep /etc/kernel /var/log/apt/* >> This did not produce any useful output: > > But this shows that those two scripts where missing for a long time, as > they don't show up in the run-parts output. With the default logrotate > config for term.log (rotate monthly and keep 12) this means it is broken > since a year. > > So all the calls of "update-grub" from the linux maintainer scripts have > been missing. But something still created new grub configs or you > would've never booted 6.12.31. So either there is something else on > this system that creates grub configs or someone did it by hand. (This might be a red herring because this machine has barely been used over the past year.) > You could try and see if logs contain traces of "update-grub": > > - grep "Found linux image" -B 10 /var/log/ -r > - journalctl --since=2025-04-01 -g 'Found linux image' There is exactly one trace: when apt upgraded to grub-efi-amd64 2.12-8: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.12-8) ... [...] Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.12.31-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.12.31-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.12.27-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.12.27-amd64 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In the [...] I got prompted about the new /etc/default/grub. So it seems like the conffile handling that went on during that /etc/default/grub change might have gone wrong? -- Sean Whitton
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