Bug#826045: systemd: New kernels are not booted

[Thomas Prokosch]

Package: systemd
Version: 229-6
Severity: important

After gummiboot has been integrated into systemd as systemd-boot, I
decided to give this new feature a try and installed a new machine
with systemd, not installing gummiboot or any other boot loader. The
machine is capable of booting an UEFI stub, so systemd-boot should be
able to handle this. However, with this approach the machine failed to
boot. Only after manually copying the kernel and initramfs from /boot
to /boot/efi, and manually setting up the relevant data structures in
/boot/efi the machine came up as expected.

It seems that integrating gummiboot into systemd is missing a critical
piece, that is the update-gummiboot script that copies the kernel
files. This script was installed in the postinst hook for kernels at
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/ but is absent in systemd.

Because of this omission new installs are broken, this is why I set
the severy of this bug report to "important".

Please add an equivalent of the update-gummiboot script to systemd.

br,
Thomas


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libapparmor1    2.10-2+b2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4.5-1
ii  libblkid1       2.27.1-1
ii  libc6           2.22-7
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-12
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-12
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.4-4
ii  libkmod2        21-1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libmount1       2.27.1-1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libseccomp2     2.2.3-2
ii  libselinux1     2.4-3
ii  libsystemd0     229-6
ii  mount           2.27.1-1
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59.2
ii  util-linux      2.27.1-1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.10.8-1
ii  libpam-systemd  229-6

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-container  <none>
pn  systemd-ui         <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
ii  udev  229-6

-- no debconf information