Activity log for bug #1456911

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2015-05-20 07:10:34 Ivan Hu bug added bug
2015-05-20 07:13:25 Ivan Hu attachment added OVMF_1f.fd https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/1456911/+attachment/4400783/+files/OVMF_1f.fd
2015-05-20 12:57:18 Phillip Susi affects grub (Ubuntu) grub2 (Ubuntu)
2015-05-20 12:57:18 Phillip Susi grub2 (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2015-05-20 12:57:18 Phillip Susi grub2 (Ubuntu): status New Triaged
2015-05-20 17:11:07 Steve Langasek grub2 (Ubuntu): importance High Critical
2015-05-20 17:11:15 Steve Langasek grub2 (Ubuntu): assignee Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)
2015-05-21 03:10:36 Anthony Wong bug added subscriber Anthony Wong
2015-05-26 02:43:11 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre grub2 (Ubuntu): status Triaged In Progress
2015-06-02 16:03:31 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre grub2 (Ubuntu): status In Progress Fix Committed
2015-07-06 21:01:03 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/wily-proposed/grub2
2015-07-06 23:39:27 Launchpad Janitor grub2 (Ubuntu): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2015-09-04 16:20:53 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:debian/grub2
2016-07-28 15:20:36 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre nominated for series Ubuntu Trusty
2016-07-28 15:20:36 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre bug task added grub2 (Ubuntu Trusty)
2016-07-29 18:40:25 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre grub2 (Ubuntu Trusty): status New In Progress
2016-07-29 18:40:28 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre grub2 (Ubuntu Trusty): importance Undecided Medium
2016-07-29 18:40:29 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre grub2 (Ubuntu Trusty): assignee Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
2016-07-29 18:47:28 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre description Some new Bios would like to support the new feature,capsule update, on UEFI spec. 2.4b. So the UEFI variable OsIndicationsSupported will be set as 0x1F on Bios, this causes the update-grub fail, also Ubuntu installation fail. $ sudo update-grub Generating grub configuration file ... Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-16-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-16-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-15-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-15-generic /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware: 34: /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware: arithmetic expression: expecting EOF: " 1f & 1 " ~ [Impact] Users on newer UEFI firmware that follows spec 2.4b. (such an any new-ish Lenovo laptops, apparently, perhaps new Dell systems as well, etc.) [Test case] With the patch installs may fail to complete, update-grub may fail to run. 1) sudo update-grub Notice whether the command shows an arithmetic error running /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware [Regression potential] Limited; this fixes a value formatting error which caused any hex to be matched as string rather than an hex value in grub config scripts -- it will still match correctly on older BIOS versions. --- Some new Bios would like to support the new feature,capsule update, on UEFI spec. 2.4b. So the UEFI variable OsIndicationsSupported will be set as 0x1F on Bios, this causes the update-grub fail, also Ubuntu installation fail. $ sudo update-grub Generating grub configuration file ... Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-16-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-16-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-15-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-15-generic /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware: 34: /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware: arithmetic expression: expecting EOF: " 1f & 1 " ~
2016-08-02 06:56:57 Adam Conrad bug task added grub2-signed (Ubuntu)
2016-08-02 06:58:08 Adam Conrad grub2 (Ubuntu Trusty): status In Progress Fix Committed
2016-08-02 06:58:09 Adam Conrad bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2016-08-02 06:58:11 Adam Conrad bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2016-08-02 06:58:19 Adam Conrad tags verification-needed
2016-08-02 06:59:14 Adam Conrad grub2-signed (Ubuntu): status New Fix Released
2016-08-02 06:59:17 Adam Conrad grub2-signed (Ubuntu Trusty): assignee Adam Conrad (adconrad)
2016-08-02 07:37:48 Adam Conrad grub2-signed (Ubuntu Trusty): status New Fix Committed
2016-08-03 12:17:22 Adam Conrad tags verification-needed verification-done
2016-08-03 12:17:40 Launchpad Janitor grub2 (Ubuntu Trusty): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2016-08-03 12:17:50 Adam Conrad removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2016-08-03 12:17:57 Launchpad Janitor grub2-signed (Ubuntu Trusty): status Fix Committed Fix Released