Bug 18461

Summary: drakboot crashed (Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at bootloader.pm line 305)
Product: Mageia Reporter: vincent boville <vb.familly>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: marja11, zen25000
Version: 5Keywords: NEEDINFO
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: drakxtools-16.104-1.mga5, os-prober CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 416    

Description vincent boville 2016-05-15 15:01:28 CEST 
The "drakboot" program crashed. Drakbug-16.104 caught it.

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Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm line 305.
Perl's trace:
drakbug::bug_handler() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm:305
bootloader::read_grub2() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm:234
bootloader::read() called from /usr/libexec/drakboot:52

Theme name: Adwaita
Kernel version = 4.1.15-desktop-2.mga5
Distribution=Mageia release 5 (Official) for x86_64
CPU=Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz
Marja Van Waes 2016-05-15 15:03:51 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Summary: drakboot crashed => drakboot crashed - Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal)

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2016-07-04 15:37:48 CEST 
What were you doing at that time?
Just starting it?

Based on the affected code, it looks like os-prober generated invalid UTF-8 in /boot/grub2/grub2.cfg and that drakboot failed to read it back.

Can you attach (not paste) your /boot/grub2/grub2.cfg file?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => zen25000
Blocks: (none) => 416
Summary: drakboot crashed - Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) => drakboot crashed (Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at bootloader.pm line 305)
Source RPM: drakxtools-16.104-1.mga5 => drakxtools-16.104-1.mga5, os-prober

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2017-02-14 23:01:59 CET 
dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16840 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE