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Bug 1640920 - grub2-efi and shim packages should be protected in dnf
Summary: grub2-efi and shim packages should be protected in dnf
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1874541
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-10-19 07:41 UTC by Marko Myllynen
Modified: 2021-06-29 20:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-06-29 20:05:08 UTC
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Description Marko Myllynen 2018-10-19 07:41:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
When installing Fedora 29 on UEFI system Anaconda correctly adds grub2-efi and shim packages as part of the installation package set (e.g., grub2-efi-x64 and shim-x64 on an x86_64 laptop, for some reason also the 32-bit packages).

These packages are not protected in dnf (under /etc/yum/protected.d) so a simple administrator action or a script or playbook could remove these packages, rendering the system completely unbootable so that even GRUB menu is never reached (as /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi would be missing).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 29 Beta

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 29 on UEFI system
2. Reboot
3. dnf remove grub2-efi-x64 shim-x64

Actual results:
Critical packages for system to even show GRUB menu are allowed to be removed.

Expected results:
Critical packages are protected from removal (at least on dnf level, preferable also with rpm dependencies so that "rpm -e ..." would fail as well).
Comment 1 Vladimír Slávik 2019-10-04 17:03:21 UTC 
On [my install of] Fedora 30 the location to put this data appears to be /etc/dnf/protected.d/*.conf The files I see on my system in there are all provided by the respective packages. Following that logic, the bug really is against the grub2 and shim components.
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2019-10-04 17:09:21 UTC 
There's more discussion of this in the RHEL version of this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1639168

where I suggested the same thing. I'm not entirely clear why the initial proposals in that bug are all to do something more complicated when a simple fix appears to be available.
Comment 3 Vladimír Slávik 2019-10-07 09:01:28 UTC 
I agree - let's move this to grub2.
Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 18:47:23 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '29'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
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to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
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Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2019-11-04 18:08:23 UTC 
This is still a valid proposal, I believe.
Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2020-02-11 15:44:19 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 32 development cycle.
Changing version to 32.
Comment 7 Matthew Miller 2020-10-22 14:30:30 UTC 
Note that the shim package is covered by #1874541
Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2021-02-09 15:06:55 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 34 development cycle.
Changing version to 34.
Comment 9 Javier Martinez Canillas 2021-06-29 20:05:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1874541 ***
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