Comment 42 for bug 2051999

Hi Mike,

Backporting and SRU-ing GRUB 2.12 to Jammy is part of the roadmap for
the Ubuntu 24.10 cycle. I would like to not make a more specific public
commitment right now, but it's inside the realm of possibility that it
will happen a lot sooner than October 2024.

Mate

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 6:40 PM Mike Ferreira
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>
> @mate ---
>
> I checked the changelogs of the current Grub2 packages for Jammy.
>
> I don't see patches for this issue yet. The last updates for Grub2
> packages for Jammy were in April, and were for ARM, and a CVE security
> update by you. Because that was "Security", I understand that those took
> precedence.
>
> But is now 2 months since then, with no updates/patches.
>
> You said 2.12 was patched, but current Grub2 in Jammy is still
> 2.06-2ubuntu7.2 amd64...
>
> Any expected timeline for Jammy?
>
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> Title:
> Grub2 2.06 has upstream bug that results in Non-booting with ZFS after
> snapshot of bpool.
>
> Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in grub2-unsigned package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in zfs-linux package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> There is an upstream Bug with Grub where if you create snapshots of bpool, it results in a non-booting System. The problem was found to be an upstream Bug with Grub2:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?64297
>
> Multiple Ubuntu 22.04.3 Users Affected:
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2494397&highlight=zfs+grub+bug
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2494957
>
> Brought up as an issue at OpenZFS:
> https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13873
>
> If you look at this comment (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13873#issuecomment-1892911836), if was found the Savanaugh at GNU released a fix for it in Grub2 2.12, here:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/log/grub-core/fs/zfs/zfs.c
>
> Ubuntu Jammy 22.04.3 is Grub2 2.06. We need to backported this patch
> to Grub2 2.06 so that Users are not caught of in this bug for or
> currently supported LTS Release.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
> Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.06-2ubuntu14.4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-39.40~22.04.1-generic 6.2.16
> Uname: Linux 6.2.0-39-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Thu Feb 1 16:40:28 2024
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-09-23 (861 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819)
> SourcePackage: grub2-unsigned
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-08-17 (533 days ago)
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