Bug 20284

Summary:	drakboot crashed (Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm line 318.)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Stéphane Couturier <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakxtools-17.71-2.mga6	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Stéphane Couturier 2017-02-14 08:43:43 CET

The "drakboot" program crashed. Drakbug-17.71 caught it.


I realized that although I have done all updates of cauldron, I am running on an old kernel.
uname -a  is giving:
Linux localhost 4.6.3-desktop-1.mga6 #1 SMP Sat Jun 25 11:20:38 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So I meant to reinstall the boot loader, hoping it would fix the issue and use the kernel-desktop-latest by default, and I was just starting the configuration of boot from MCC when it crashed.


Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm line 318.
Perl's trace:
drakbug::bug_handler() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm:318
bootloader::read_grub2() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm:234
bootloader::read() called from /usr/libexec/drakboot:39

Theme name: Breeze
Kernel version = 4.6.3-desktop-1.mga6
Distribution=Mageia release 6 (Cauldron) for x86_64
CPU=Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-02-14 22:58:37 CET

Hi Stéphane,

This is a duplicate of bug 16840, even if there it happened during a Live install. In another duplicate bug, 18461, Thierry asked:

> 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?

It would be nice if you could attach that file to bug 16840

After that, I recommend running an "upgrade install" with a network iso or even 6sta1. That often fixes the kind of problems you see.

CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: drakboot crashed => drakboot crashed (Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm line 318.)

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2017-02-14 22:59:14 CET

(Dup, as said)

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

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