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Bug 1933085 - grub2-common-1:2.04-36.fc34 has posttrans error that breaks all livemedia composes
Summary: grub2-common-1:2.04-36.fc34 has posttrans error that breaks all livemedia com...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-02-25 16:12 UTC by Kevin Fenzi
Modified: 2021-05-01 10:21 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: grub2-2.04-37.fc34 grub2-2.06~rc1-2.fc35
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Last Closed: 2021-03-19 17:39:12 UTC
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Description Kevin Fenzi 2021-02-25 16:12:42 UTC 
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=62666175


```
04:58:28,603 INF packaging: Configuring (running scriptlet for): grub2-common-1:2.04-36.fc34.noarch 1614024666 69e18
a50d4893899da46015b8a4dcd6e2e9f74e0d8677276fbecc153cd2a3d9e
04:58:28,635 INF dnf.rpm: grep: /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubenv': No such file or directory
warning: %posttrans(grub2-common-1:2.04-36.fc34.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

04:58:28,636 ERR dnf.rpm: Error in POSTTRANS scriptlet in rpm package grub2-common
04:59:27,337 INF dnf.rpm: dracut: No '/dev/log' or 'logger' included for syslog logging
dracut: No '/dev/log' or 'logger' included for syslog logging

04:59:27,631 INF dnf.rpm: Running in chroot, ignoring command 'try-restart'

04:59:32,990 DDEBUG dnf: RPM transaction over.
04:59:34,020 DDEBUG dnf: timer: verify transaction: 1003 ms
04:59:34,022 DDEBUG dnf: timer: transaction: 201578 ms


```
Comment 1 Mohan Boddu 2021-02-25 16:33:10 UTC 
Untagged grub2-2.04-36.fc34 and started another compose - https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/Fedora-34-20210225.n.1/
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2021-02-26 13:21:07 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-dd26804e96 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 34. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-dd26804e96
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2021-02-26 16:34:02 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-dd26804e96 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-dd26804e96`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-dd26804e96

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2021-03-19 17:39:12 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-dd26804e96 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2021-03-19 19:56:22 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-dd26804e96 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2021-03-24 08:54:37 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-6e172a47e2 has been pushed to the Fedora 35 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Ed van Gasteren 2021-05-01 10:21:39 UTC 
Tried to install Fedora 34 yesterday. It ran into "Error in POSTTRANS scriplet in rpm package grub2-common". Couldn't do much more then abort the installation (the only option given by the install GUI).

To install I take vmlinuz and initrd.img from a good mirror (this time from https://ams.edge.kernel.org/fedora-buffet/fedora/linux/releases/34/Everything/x86_64/os/isolinux/) and boot that kernel.
I keep the existing /boot and /boot/efi and serveral other file systems (among which a working Fedora 33) and install Fedora 34 on new LVM partions (/ and /var).
So the installation has to deal with existing stuff on /boot and /boot/efi.
 
From https://ams.edge.kernel.org/fedora-buffet/fedora/linux/updates/34/Everything/x86_64/Packages/g/ I picked up the most recent available version of the package: grub2-common-2.06_rc1-4.fc34.noarch.rpm (note the "rc1" in there).

I reviewed the scriplet. It seems to have a problem with my grubenv and grub.cfg files setup.
In /boot/grub2 I had symbolic links for grubenv and grub.cfg to ../efi/EFI/fedora/ where the real files where. 
Don't recall when and how I ended up with those links and this construction. I am not sure it comes from a earlier Fedora install. I don't think its my hack.
Anyway, the scriplet couldn't unify this.

Based on my interpretation of the scriplet's intent, I did a manual unify.
Afterwards I could successfully install.
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