Activity log for bug #1848892

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2019-10-19 21:32:24 Stefan Löffler bug added bug
2019-10-20 10:26:46 Launchpad Janitor grub2 (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2019-10-20 16:17:54 Mark Rijckenberg bug added subscriber Mark Rijckenberg
2019-10-21 11:46:17 Mark Rijckenberg bug added subscriber Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2019-10-21 13:48:42 Mauricio Faria de Oliveira removed subscriber Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2019-10-22 09:19:43 Mark Rijckenberg tags amd64 apport-bug eoan 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub tpm
2019-10-23 09:10:36 Sebastien Bacher grub2 (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2019-10-23 09:10:48 Sebastien Bacher tags 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub tpm 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub rls-ee-incoming tpm
2019-10-23 12:43:33 Adam Niedling bug added subscriber Adam Niedling
2019-10-23 16:42:44 AtesComp bug added subscriber AtesComp
2019-10-27 12:12:51 Ben Bipod bug added subscriber Ben Bipod
2019-10-31 15:21:17 Brian Murray nominated for series Ubuntu Eoan
2019-10-31 15:21:17 Brian Murray bug task added grub2 (Ubuntu Eoan)
2019-10-31 15:21:17 Brian Murray nominated for series Ubuntu Focal
2019-10-31 15:21:17 Brian Murray bug task added grub2 (Ubuntu Focal)
2019-10-31 15:21:32 Brian Murray tags 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub rls-ee-incoming tpm 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub tpm
2019-10-31 20:05:42 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre description After upgrading to eoan today (via `do-release-upgrade -d`), my laptop failed to boot into the OS. I got the grub 2.04 screen (showing only Ubuntu), but selecting that gave me about 20 lines of "error: Unknown TPM error.", followed by "error: you need to load the kernel first" and no way to proceed/recover. Advanced options didn't work either. Dropping into the grub console and writing a simple command like `set root=(hd1,gpt5)` failed again with a TPM error. It goes without saying that booting had worked before with disco/grub 2.02. As a workaround, I eventually managed to boot using an eoan live CD, chroot'ed into my system, added the `disco main` repo, and forcefully downgraded to disco's 2.02. After reinstalling grub to the efi partition, booting finally worked again (with grub 2.02). lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 19.10 Release: 19.10 apt-cache policy grub-efi grub-efi: Installed: 2.02+dfsg1-12ubuntu2 Candidate: 2.04-1ubuntu12 Version table: 2.04-1ubuntu12 500 500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages *** 2.02+dfsg1-12ubuntu2 500 500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu disco/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: grub-efi 2.02+dfsg1-12ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Oct 19 23:20:07 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-05 (958 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2) SourcePackage: grub2 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-10-19 (0 days ago) [Impact] Some specific system (listed in upstream thread at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-10/msg00104.html) Mostly ASUS systems, but also reported on some Dell systems. The affected systems are used to boot in UEFI mode and will fail to write measurements to the possible onboard TPM, causing failure to boot. [Test case] 1) Boot affected system to Ubuntu 2) Verify that the system boots successfully to Ubuntu, without "unknown TPM error" messages. [Regression potential] Low risk of regression, as this changes the current behavior only to avoid failing to boot when such errors are encountered, instead switching the behavior to writing debug messages (if debugging is enabled only) in such cases. Further work may be needed later to correct or mitigate these errors if TPM measurements are needed to work on the affected systems, as such measurements would otherwise be incomplete. --- After upgrading to eoan today (via `do-release-upgrade -d`), my laptop failed to boot into the OS. I got the grub 2.04 screen (showing only Ubuntu), but selecting that gave me about 20 lines of "error: Unknown TPM error.", followed by "error: you need to load the kernel first" and no way to proceed/recover. Advanced options didn't work either. Dropping into the grub console and writing a simple command like `set root=(hd1,gpt5)` failed again with a TPM error. It goes without saying that booting had worked before with disco/grub 2.02. As a workaround, I eventually managed to boot using an eoan live CD, chroot'ed into my system, added the `disco main` repo, and forcefully downgraded to disco's 2.02. After reinstalling grub to the efi partition, booting finally worked again (with grub 2.02). lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 19.10 Release: 19.10 apt-cache policy grub-efi grub-efi:   Installed: 2.02+dfsg1-12ubuntu2   Candidate: 2.04-1ubuntu12   Version table:      2.04-1ubuntu12 500         500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages  *** 2.02+dfsg1-12ubuntu2 500         500 http://ubuntu.inode.at/ubuntu disco/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: grub-efi 2.02+dfsg1-12ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Oct 19 23:20:07 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-05 (958 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2) SourcePackage: grub2 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-10-19 (0 days ago)
2019-10-31 20:05:46 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre grub2 (Ubuntu Eoan): status New Triaged
2019-10-31 20:05:49 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre grub2 (Ubuntu Eoan): importance Undecided High
2019-10-31 20:05:51 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre grub2 (Ubuntu Focal): status Confirmed In Progress
2019-11-01 12:51:38 Francis Ginther tags 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub tpm 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm
2019-11-01 13:55:49 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre tags 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm 2.04 amd64 apport-bug block-proposed eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm
2019-11-01 19:14:36 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre tags 2.04 amd64 apport-bug block-proposed eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm
2019-11-01 22:39:15 Launchpad Janitor grub2 (Ubuntu Focal): status In Progress Fix Released
2019-11-05 05:49:04 Adam Conrad grub2 (Ubuntu Eoan): status Triaged Fix Committed
2019-11-05 05:49:07 Adam Conrad bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-11-05 05:49:10 Adam Conrad bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2019-11-05 05:49:14 Adam Conrad tags 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm verification-needed verification-needed-eoan
2019-11-05 12:38:09 Marcos Carbonell grub2 (Ubuntu Eoan): status Fix Committed New
2019-11-05 12:38:16 Marcos Carbonell grub2 (Ubuntu Eoan): status New Fix Committed
2019-11-06 09:03:32 Loicvh bug added subscriber Loicvh
2019-11-09 21:02:54 Etienne URBAH tags 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm verification-needed verification-needed-eoan 2.04 amd64 apport-bug eoan grub id-5dbafbfc5d01ae8c60af72b8 tpm verification-done-eoan verification-needed
2019-11-09 21:04:57 Etienne URBAH bug added subscriber Etienne URBAH
2019-11-17 10:22:15 Ben Bipod removed subscriber Ben Bipod
2019-11-25 09:58:20 Launchpad Janitor grub2 (Ubuntu Eoan): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-11-25 09:58:30 Łukasz Zemczak removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-11-25 10:49:46 Eric Andreani removed subscriber Eric Andreani
2021-01-04 09:09:19 broucaries bug watch added https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940911
2021-01-04 09:09:19 broucaries bug task added grub2 (Debian)
2021-01-04 09:43:52 Bug Watch Updater grub2 (Debian): status Unknown New
2021-02-25 21:59:07 Bug Watch Updater grub2 (Debian): status New Confirmed
2021-07-12 12:39:29 Bug Watch Updater grub2 (Debian): status Confirmed Fix Released