Bug#1043583: systemd-boot postinst update causes EFI crash

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: severity -1 minor
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:59:07 +0300 Maria Lisina
<sekoohaka.sarisan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: systemd-boot
> Version: 252.12-1~deb12u1
> Severity: critical
> Tags: patch
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> X-Debbugs-Cc: sekoohaka.sarisan at gmail.com
> 
> Dear Maintainer, when systemd-boot updates and if bootctl is-
installed reports
> 0, it runs bootctl update --graceful without --no-variables option.
It causes
> EFI crash on my machine because it doesn't support nvram. Official
systemd-boot
> update service has this option (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-boot-
> update.service:21). I think it should be added to postints too.

Which hardware is that? And what does 'EFI crash' mean exactly? What's
the output of 'SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug bootctl update' ?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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