Is anyone having issues with the Grub 2 patch?

[crosscourt]

A major Grub 2 patch was released to fix a security issue and it appears its affected many Red Hat and CentOS systems making them unbootable.
Ive installed it on FerenOS KDE and so far havent had any issues but of course its just a laptop, not a server.

Apparently there are also some sporadic reports with Ubuntu and Debian.

[tlmiller]

I've installed it on several Debian machines and haven't had any issues.

[crosscourt]

Its the boothole patches dealing with the secure boot issues. Maybe server specific but its widespread in RH/CentOS systems.

[tlmiller]

I haven't installed on my only RH-related system yet. I haven't specifically installed it on my Arch machines either, although they did get grub updates so I have a feeling the updates was the patch. At work I have no machines that are running CentOS that even HAVE secure boot as an option, although it'll be a couple weeks until they get their updates (basically we do updates on them at the same time as Windows updates)...

[crosscourt]

I havent updated my other distros yet so Ill see what happens. It has also occured with Ubuntu and debian.

[wove]

Rasbian for the Pi uses grub and it was updated today. The restart went without a hitch. Debian on the Pinebook Pro does not use grub, but boots from ARMs firmware bootloader. Manjaro on the PBP uses grub, but I have not booted into it for several days. Manjaro was/is pleased with itself for booting the PBP using grub and UEFI. Since ARM has its own built in boot loader, it seems so strange to me that several distros seem so pleased with modifing the ARM bootloader to do nothing beyond boot grub. Manjaro is crowing about getting UEFI booting setup, yet of course UEFI is very native to Intel hardware.

bill

[dai_trying]

I have seen in the Debian forum that a second grub update has been released to fix the initial problem so Debian users with Stable/testing should be ok but oldstable might take another update to be fixed.

[crosscourt]

A number of patches are already out and about.

[bin]

Yup - got my grub blown up by the original update. Dumped out at grub rescue> prompt.

Turns out I had forgotten to exclude grub in unattended-upgrades, so it blithely ran and bust it. Normally it should ask for the location for grub to be installed with a curses checkbox....

In the end I used rescatux to straighten it out - no problem.

[crosscourt]

Nice to see you bin. You were running Q4OS as your OS?