Bug 1529969 - Grub2 fails to recognize ext4 filesystems that have the "inline_data" feature flag
Summary: Grub2 fails to recognize ext4 filesystems that have the "inline_data" feature...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-31 15:04 UTC by Bert DeKnuydt
Modified: 2019-11-27 20:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-11-27 20:05:56 UTC
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Description Bert DeKnuydt 2017-12-31 15:04:47 UTC
Description of problem:

Grub2 does not recognize an ext4 filesystem that has the "inline_data" flag set.
So it does not read its config and goes in rescue mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

grub2-pc-2.02-19

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the 'inline_data' filesystem feature on the ext4 filesystem where
   grub2 is to read its config file.
2. Reboot

Actual results:

Grub goes into rescue mode

Expected results:

Normal boot.

Additional info:

grub2.cfg is always 'big', so it won't really be inline.  In other words,
I think it's safe to ignore the 'inline_data' flag for grub2.

Nothing wrong with keeping it 'unsupported', but in 99.99% of the cases,
it would simply work by ignoring this flag (I guess).

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 17:37:20 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 27 is nearing its end of life.
On 2018-Nov-30  Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 27. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
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Comment 2 Bert DeKnuydt 2018-11-28 09:56:05 UTC
Still in F29.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:25:06 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '29'.

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plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

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able to fix it before Fedora 29 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

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lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 20:05:56 UTC
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
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