gordonp
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 May 2005
Posts: 102
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 Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 9:49 pm Post subject: grub-mkconfig: attempt to read or write outside of partition |
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Suddenly now, after a decade or so, I have three QEMU Virtual Machines giving me this same error!!!
| Code: | # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.52-gentoo-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.10.52-gentoo-x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64.old
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64.img
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.
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All three VMs do not use systemd. All VMs were successfully rebooted prior to this error, about a week ago:
| Code: | # uptime
14:36:20 up 8 days, 6:02, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.64 |
During the week since I rebooted, there have been a lot of Perl-induced updates, a new kernel, and I rebuilt the entire world (--emptytree).
I am running kernel linux-5.10.27-gentoo; I just compiled the freshest linux-5.10.52-gentoo
I'm afraid to attempt a reboot; I'm trying to keep everything running until I can sort this out!
Here's more about the system (which hasn't changed for many, many years):
| Code: | # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
none 1000M 460K 1000M 1% /run
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 1000M 0 1000M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/vda4 26G 9.9G 17G 39% /
cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda2 124M 46M 72M 39% /boot |
| Code: | # fdisk /dev/vda
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.36.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/vda: 30 GiB, 32212258816 bytes, 62914568 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D4B1FDC6-A1A0-4AA9-8F5E-2513FE7B1B4C
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/vda1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
/dev/vda2 6144 268287 262144 128M Linux filesystem
/dev/vda3 268288 8460287 8192000 3.9G Linux filesystem
/dev/vda4 8460288 62912511 54452224 26G Linux filesystem |
| Code: | # lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
vda 254:0 0 30G 0 disk
├─vda1 254:1 0 2M 0 part
├─vda2 254:2 0 128M 0 part /boot
├─vda3 254:3 0 3.9G 0 part [SWAP]
└─vda4 254:4 0 26G 0 part / |
| Code: | # mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=255044,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/vda4 on / type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota)
cgroup_root on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
openrc on /sys/fs/cgroup/openrc type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib/rc/sh/cgroup-release-agent.sh,name=openrc)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/vda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,user_xattr) |
To try to localize the issue, I run and see this:
| Code: | # bash -x grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
+ set -e
+ prefix=/usr
+ exec_prefix=/usr
+ datarootdir=/usr/share
+ prefix=/usr
+ exec_prefix=/usr
+ sbindir=/usr/sbin
+ bindir=/usr/bin
+ sysconfdir=/etc
+ PACKAGE_NAME=GRUB
+ PACKAGE_VERSION=2.06
+ host_os=linux-gnu
+ datadir=/usr/share
+ '[' x = x ']'
+ pkgdatadir=/usr/share/grub
+ export pkgdatadir
+ grub_cfg=
+ grub_mkconfig_dir=/etc/grub.d
++ basename grub-mkconfig
<<snippety-do>>
+ for i in "${grub_mkconfig_dir}"/*
+ case "$i" in
+ grub_file_is_not_garbage /etc/grub.d/00_header
+ test -f /etc/grub.d/00_header
+ case "$1" in
+ return 0
+ test -x /etc/grub.d/00_header
+ echo
+ echo '### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###'
+ /etc/grub.d/00_header
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
error: attempt to read or write outside of partition.
+ echo '### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###'
+ for i in "${grub_mkconfig_dir}"/*
+ case "$i" in
+ grub_file_is_not_garbage /etc/grub.d/10_linux
+ test -f /etc/grub.d/10_linux
+ case "$1" in
+ return 0
+ test -x /etc/grub.d/10_linux
+ echo
+ echo '### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###'
+ /etc/grub.d/10_linux
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.52-gentoo-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.10.52-gentoo-x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64.old
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64.img
+ echo '### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###'
<<chopped>> |
I use genkernel.
I use initramfs.
My /etc/genkernel.conf file is exactly the same as used on my workstations and the kvm/QEMU host, where grub-mkconfig -o works fine (same fresh kernel, same Perl-massive-updates, same grub. Just real, physical hardware though).
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! |
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