Is it something to be concerned with?

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Is it something to be concerned with?

Postby adhefe » May 5th, '21, 02:47

Hi

After updating 7 to 8 via urpmi --auto-update --force etc everything seems fine now but every time I boot the system I see this error message:

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error ../../grub-core/commands/loadenv.c:216:sparse file not allowed

Press any key to continue ...


Is it something to be concerned with?

Thanks for any comment
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Re: Is it something to be concerned with?

Postby sturmvogel » May 5th, '21, 16:47

The first result of a search engine:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27117
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Re: Is it something to be concerned with?

Postby doktor5000 » May 5th, '21, 19:22

adhefe wrote:Is it something to be concerned with?

No. You're probably using btrfs as / or /boot filesystem ? You can either ignore the message or disable savedefault as suggested in the bugreport.
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Re: Is it something to be concerned with?

Postby adhefe » May 5th, '21, 23:03

Thanks for the reply,

Ok I could suppress this message disabling savedefault as in the bug report.
But I was using btrfs for / with mageia 7 and had not seen this message before updating to mageia 8. Now I wonder why I have this message now with mageia 8 if I've moved from mga7 to mga8 with urpmi --auto-update. I mean I did not make a fresh install and my partitions are as they were in mageia 7. Maybe the verbosity in outputs was increased ...(?)

Thanks again
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Re: Is it something to be concerned with?

Postby doktor5000 » May 5th, '21, 23:38

adhefe wrote:But I was using btrfs for / with mageia 7 and had not seen this message before updating to mageia 8. Now I wonder why I have this message now with mageia 8 if I've moved from mga7 to mga8 with urpmi --auto-update.

I've explained that in the bugreport. Previously we had a patch to suppress this warning, nowadays we don't have that patch anymore, so the warning is shown again.
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