FS#46070 - efivar 0.20 broken, 0.21 in testing working

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Milan (PetaByteBoy) - Saturday, 22 August 2015, 11:46 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 24 August 2015, 06:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
efivar 0.20 is broken and can't be used to create a boot entry (with efibootmgr). Version 0.21, which is in testing since 2015-07-16, is fully functional as far as I know. Is there any reason to keep efivar 0.21 in testing?

Steps to reproduce:
Try to create an efi boot entry with "efibootmgr -c -u 'some options'" using efivar 0.20.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 24 August 2015, 06:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Moved
Comment by - (cubetronic) - Sunday, 23 August 2015, 21:20 GMT
I got stuck during an Arch install with 0.20, just a few days ago, and had to upgrade to efivar 0.21, and then it worked. I've seen reports of this elsewhere, and I figure 0.21 should be moved to core.

Reproduced on:
Dell Inspiron 5720 17r
EFI v2.31 by Phoenix Technologies Ltd.

Other reports:
https://github.com/rhinstaller/efibootmgr/issues/36
https://github.com/rhinstaller/efivar/issues/22

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