grub2-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Unknown error 19559280

[tpgxyz]

I have this issue with efibootmgr-16

19:42:13 [6]: Starting job "bootloader" 
19:42:13 [6]: Job file "/usr/lib64/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py" 
19:42:13 [6]: Job description from __doc__ "bootloader" = "Starts procedure and passes 'fw_type' to other routine." 
19:42:13 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]:  "Bootloader: grub (efi)" 
19:42:13 [6]: Running "chroot" ("/tmp/calamares-root-swpv6s6n", "grub2-install", "--target=x86_64-efi", "--efi-directory=/boot/efi", "--bootloader-id=openmandriva", "--force") 
19:42:15 [6]: Finished. Exit code: 1 
19:42:15 [6]: Target cmd: ("grub2-install", "--target=x86_64-efi", "--efi-directory=/boot/efi", "--bootloader-id=openmandriva", "--force") 
19:42:15 [6]: Target output:
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub2-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Unknown error 19559280.
19:42:15 [6]: Python Error:
 <class 'subprocess.CalledProcessError'> 
 Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub2-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Unknown error 19559280. 
 File "/usr/lib64/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 420, in run
    prepare_bootloader(fw_type)

  File "/usr/lib64/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 387, in prepare_bootloader
    install_grub(efi_directory, fw_type)

  File "/usr/lib64/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 261, in install_grub
    "--force"])

  File "<string>", line 5, in <module> 
 
19:42:15 [6]: Skipping non-emergency job "packages" 

[paulmenzel]

I am having the same problem with a Dell OptiPlex 7010 running Debian Sid/unstable with efibootmgr 15.

error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Unknown error 21845.

Note, the error code is different each time.

Additionally, the system suspends afterward.

[tpgxyz]

@paulmenzel we fixed it this way
https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/grub2/blob/master/0001-Revert-Make-grub-install-check-for-errors-from-efibo.patch

[paulmenzel]

On 10/23/18 13:44, Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote: @paulmenzel we fixed it this way https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/grub2/blob/master/0001-Revert-Make-grub-install-check-for-errors-from-efibo.patch

Thank you for the pointer. That would indeed work around the issue. But, it’d be great to debug the efibootmgr issue. Is there an easy way, for example with strace, to get the efibootmgr commands with arguments that is executed by `grub-install`? I tried sudo strace -v -f -e execve -s10000 grub-install /dev/sda but only got the output below. [pid 27032] execve("/bin/efibootmgr", ["efibootmgr"], ["LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.tzst=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.wim=01;31:*.swm=01;31:*.dwm=01;31:*.esd=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:", "LANG=en_US.UTF-8", "DISPLAY=localhost:10.0", "TERM=xterm-256color", "LANGUAGE=en_US:en", "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin", "MAIL=/var/mail/root", "LOGNAME=root", "USER=root", "USERNAME=root", "HOME=/root", "SHELL=/bin/bash", "SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strace -v -f -e execve -s10000 grub-install /dev/sda", "SUDO_USER=joey", "SUDO_UID=1000", "SUDO_GID=1000", "LC_ALL=C"]) = 0 [pid 27032] +++ exited with 0 +++ --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=27032, si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} --- grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Unknown error 22020.

[paulmenzel]

The error is caused by an uninitialized variable in GRUB. I sent a patch to the list grub-devel.

 grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c b/grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c
index ca448bc11..55b8f4016 100644
--- a/grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c
+++ b/grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ grub_install_remove_efi_entries_by_distributor (const char *efi_distributor)
   pid_t pid = grub_util_exec_pipe ((const char * []){ "efibootmgr", NULL }, &fd);
   char *line = NULL;
   size_t len = 0;
-  int rc;
+  int rc = 0;
 
   if (!pid)
     {

So, the issue can be closed.