Bugzilla – Bug 1175045
GRUB fails to boot after update: "error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found."
Last modified: 2020-08-13 07:34:15 UTC
After updating the system and rebooting, GRUB entered Rescue Mode. Before the error message was: "error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found." I could not find any errors in the pbl.log: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2020-08-10 08:10:02 <1> update-bootloader-9979 new.126: update-bootloader-9979 = /sbin/update-bootloader, version = 0.924, root = 0:40 2020-08-10 08:10:02 <1> update-bootloader-9979 main.269: /sbin/update-bootloader --refresh 2020-08-10 08:10:02 <1> update-bootloader-9979 main.271: bootloader = grub2 2020-08-10 08:10:02 <1> update-bootloader-9979 main.277: locale = en_US.UTF-8 2020-08-10 08:10:11 <1> update-bootloader-9979 run_command.294: '/usr/lib/bootlo ader/grub2/config' = 0, output: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< + /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Generating grub configuration file ... Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.14-lp151.28.59-default Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-4.12.14-lp151.28.59-default Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.14-lp151.28.52-default Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-4.12.14-lp151.28.52-default Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default Found memtest image: /boot/memtest.bin Found Windows 7 on /dev/sda1 done
Using Debian-based rescatux-0.73 I was able to repair the bootloader. The logs look like this: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2020-08-10 10:01:26 <1> bootloader_entry-4495 new.126: bootloader_entry-4495 = /usr/lib/bootloader/bootloader_entry, version = 0.924, root = 0:41 2020-08-10 10:01:26 <1> bootloader_entry-4495 main.269: /usr/lib/bootloader/bootloader_entry remove default 4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default vmlinuz-4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default initrd-4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default 2020-08-10 10:01:26 <1> bootloader_entry-4495 main.271: bootloader = grub2 2020-08-10 10:01:26 <1> bootloader_entry-4495 main.277: locale = en_US.UTF-8 2020-08-10 10:01:33 <1> bootloader_entry-4495 run_command.294: '/usr/lib/bootloader/grub2/config' = 0, output: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< + /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Generating grub configuration file ... Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.14-lp151.28.59-default Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-4.12.14-lp151.28.59-default Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.14-lp151.28.52-default Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-4.12.14-lp151.28.52-default Found memtest image: /boot/memtest.bin Found Windows 7 on /dev/sda1 done >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I want to report this hit me today, so it is reproduced. It has probably been hitting other distros for over a week (ubuntu bug 1889509). I also (by happenstance) used rescatux for the repair.
Hi, This is currently tracked in bsc#1175036. Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1175036 ***