Bug#852748: Acknowledgement (system unbootable on Lenovo x260 with EFI)

[Harald Welte]

2.02~beta3-5 exposes the same problem, but during grub-install I now get
the following error message:

nataraja:/sys/fs/pstore# grub-install 
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
File descriptor 4 (/dev/sda3) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 16830: grub-install
File descriptor 4 (/dev/sda3) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 16830: grub-install
Could not prepare Boot variable: No space left on device
grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Input/output error.

This seems related/identical to #756253 / #852513

I also had plenty of dmesg-* files in /sys/fs/pstore.  Removing them
didn't help

strace tells me:

[pid 16934] access("/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/Boot0000-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 16934] open("/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/Boot0000-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0644) = 3
[pid 16934] ioctl(3, FS_IOC_GETFLAGS, 0x7ffe0df7b194) = 0
[pid 16934] write(3, "\7\0\0\0\1\0\0\0b\0d\0e\0b\0i\0a\0n\0\0\0\4\1*\0\3\0\0\0"..., 122) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device)
[pid 16934] ioctl(3, FS_IOC_GETFLAGS, 0x7ffe0df7b194) = 0
[pid 16934] unlink("/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/Boot0000-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c") = 0
[pid 16934] close(3)                    = 0
[pid 16934] write(2, "Could not prepare Boot variable", 31Could not prepare Boot variable) = 31
[pid 16934] write(2, ": No space left on device\n", 26: No space left on device) = 26

Manually deleting a random entry with efibootmgr (the one for the NVMe
which I don't have) also didn't help.

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