Bug#1036041: upgrade-reports: Dell XPS 9550 fails to boot after bullseye to bookworm upgrade - grub/bios interaction bug?

[Tim Small]

Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@seoss.co.uk

My previous release is: bullseye
I am upgrading to: bookworm
Upgrade date: 2022-05-06
Method: apt dist-upgrade

Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:


deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free non-free-firmware contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free non-free-firmware contrib

# Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://security.debian.org bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# bookworm-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware


deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug/ bookworm-debug main
# for security updates
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug/ bookworm-proposed-updates-debug main

- Were there any problems with the system after upgrading?

System fails to boot after upgrade - hangs after loading initramfs.

On enabling debug within grub, the hang occurs at:

kern/verifiers.c:88: file: /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-8-amd64 type: 131076
kern/verifiers.c:103: trying verifier pgp
kern/verifiers.c:103: trying verifier tpm


Can be worked around with:

GRUB_TERMINAL=console

... with this setting in place the system boots as expected.

[Paul Gevers]

Control: reassign -1 src:grub2
Control: severity -1 serious

Hi Tim,

Thanks for reporting the issues your facing. The comments in the report
suggest this is an issue with GRUB, so I'm reassigning it to that
package for further triaging.

Paul