Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Steve,


I am sorry for the late reply, as I was on vacation.


Am 31.07.20 um 15:22 schrieb Steve McIntyre:

> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 06:39:20AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> Am 31.07.20 um 06:30 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>>
>>> Am 30.07.20 um 23:54 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>>>> Package: grub-pc
>>>> Version: 2.04-9
>>>> Severity: grave
>>>
>>>> On a Acer TravelMate 5735Z with Debian Sid/unstable, upgrading the
>>>> package `grub-pc` causes GRUB to fail on next boot and drop into a
>>>> rescue shell.
>>>>
>>>>       GRUB loading.
>>>>       Welcome to GRUB!
>>>>
>>>>       error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found.
>>>>       grub rescue>
>>>>
>>>> It only seems to effects MBR installation.
>>>
>>> I missed to report, that the system has a separate `/boot` partition and
>>> a LUKS encrypted root `/`.
>>
>> Sorry, please scratch that. I remembered incorrectly. It’s just one
>> unencrypted F2FS formatted partition.
> 
> How many disks do you have on your system, please?
> 
> *If* you have more than one, there's a potential for grub-install to
> have not been run to install grub to all the MBRs, and then the BIOS
> finds an old copy of the GRUB first-stage loader but tries to use
> newer modules. this mis-match can cause all kinds of problems. :-/

There is only one disk in that laptop.


Kind regards,

Paul