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
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) => marja11Summary: drakboot crashed => drakboot crashed (Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm line 318.)
(Dup, as said) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16840 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE