Bug#768880: efibootmgr: unusable if reading any boot variable fails

2014-12-12 Thread D. Jared Dominguez
Jan, My apologies for not seeing this bug report earlier. I just noticed it this morning thanks to Bastien. I reviewed the patch. It looks like it should be fine for at least restoring previous behavior, so I passed it along to Peter Jones, the upstream maintainer, to see whether he concurs s

Bug#768880: efibootmgr: unusable if reading any boot variable fails

2014-11-09 Thread Jan Echternach
I've just tested with efibootmgr 0.5.4-3 (the current stable version) and it can list the boot entries. strace shows that it receives an EIO error, but it doesn't cause the program to abort. -- Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#768880: efibootmgr: unusable if reading any boot variable fails

2014-11-09 Thread Jan Echternach
Package: efibootmgr Version: 0.11.0-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, On my system, reading Boot0005 fails with EIO: openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/firmware/efi/vars/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 brk(0) = 0x