During boot, after grub selection screen, it appears "error: sparse file not allowed - Aborted. Press any key to exit."
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After updating Xubuntu 23.10 to version 24.04, during boot, after selecting the Xubuntu version from the Grub screen, I get the error:
"error: sparse file not allowed
452: out of range pointer: 0x54b42620
Aborted. Press any key to exit".
Searching online it seems that this problem is linked to btrfs file systems, but I only have Ext4 file systems.
Some online guides suggest editing the /etc/default/grub file by placing entries
GRUB_SAVEDEFAUL
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
and then run "update-grub", but this solution didn't work.
When the error appears, pressing a key will boot the system normally.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat May 11 11:42:18 2024
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0
mtime.conffile.
mtime.conffile.
summary: |
During boot, after grub selection screen, it appears "error: sparse file - not allowed" + not allowed - Aborted. Press any key to exit." |
affects: | ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.