Bug#852513: grub-efi-amd64: during configuration: "No space left on device"

Wed Jan 25 01:43:32 UTC 2017

severity 852513 grave
retitle 852513 updated renders system unbootable
thanks

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Norbert Preining wrote:
> on today's upgrade to grub 2.02~beta3-4 I was greeted with the following
> scary output:
> 	Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta3-4) ...
> 	Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
> 	Could not delete variable: No space left on device
> 	Could not prepare Boot variable: No space left on device
> 	Installation finished. No error reported.
> which does not sound inviting.

And indeed, the system boots directly into Windows and everything 
is messed up.

That is very unfortunate.

Norbert

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