Bug#966554: how to apply the workaround?

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:15:55AM +1200, quixote wrote:
>Dumb question time, because I'm still not seeing the updates to fix grub, and
>running grub-install /dev/sda still gets me the same errors about "no space
>left on device." (I checked: it's 200MB, and has 98% free space.)

Ah. You're using grub-efi. Your boot variable space is most likely
full. Do you any files matching /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-* ?

>I only have two repositories in my sources.list, since I have a plain vanilla
>install of buster. (Plus a repo for virtualbox)
>______________________________________________________
> Debian packages for stable
>deb http://ftp.citylink.co.nz/debian/ stable main contrib

I've just checked that mirror and the latest grub packages are indeed
there.

However, you should *really* change the "stable" there to say
"buster". That will stop you getting an unexpected upgrade to bullseye
on the day we release the next stabl version...

># Security updates for stable
>deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Do I maybe not have the right repo?  Adding:
>
>deb     http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main
>
>and/or
>
>deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-proposed-updates main
>
>
>didn't seem to bring up any useful packages (just a ca-certificates one).

buster-updates and buster-proposed-updates won't matter now. The grub
packages are directly in the main buster repo.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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