Bug#1051304: error: out of memory

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 01:18:31AM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On Wed, 2023 Sep  6 04:17-04:00, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> >
> > Yes, so please just try the 2.12~rc1-9 in unstable and see if it
> > fixes your issue.
> 
> I've confirmed that this version no longer gives the "out of memory"
> error, and can load and boot the ISO images that previously failed.
> 
> Is this a long way from making it into stable? Or at least -backports?

Things are quite complex with the memory management patch set, while
I have a backport to 2.06 in Ubuntu, I also did not release the final
patch set there yet. There was concern of additional regressions from
that. But we know for sure the current state was regressing some, but
I guess they are all regressed now if that makes sense.

I can try to get the patches together for a stable update, but I think
we might want to wait until the final set landed in Ubuntu updates for
LTS so we don't get the regression potential on both ends (and we have
more control over the update phasing in Ubuntu than Debian).

For a wholesale upload of grub 2.12 to stable, we need to wait for
the final 2.12 release and also we don't plan to do this if we can
backport any security patches coming up to 2.06.

I think generally this is a low priority issue for Debian if you
can't loopback large images, and Debian doesn't have initrds as huge
as Ubuntu so that never became a significant issue.
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