grub boot success services fails, because there is no grub dir

[Cyborgscode]

I think it's enabled in base by default, you may wanne remove it:

/usr/lib/systemd/user/grub-boot-success.service

root # /usr/sbin/grub2-set-bootflag boot_success
Error canonicalizing /boot/grub2/grubenv filename: No such file or directory

[Cyborgscode]

so funny...

systemctl disable grub-boot-success

Failed to disable unit: Unit file grub-boot-success.service does not exist.

ls -la /usr/lib/systemd/user/grub-boot-success.service

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 119 31. Aug 14:29 /usr/lib/systemd/user/grub-boot-success.service

[pcfe]

Please note the TriggeredBy: ● grub-boot-success.timer when you do [pine@pinephone ~]$ systemctl --user status grub-boot-success.service

Also please note this is user not system wide.

You can view the user timers with

[pine@pinephone ~]$ systemctl --user list-timers
NEXT                        LEFT          LAST                        PASSED   UNIT                         ACTIVATES                     
Fri 2021-01-08 11:32:36 CET 2min 46s left n/a                         n/a      systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
n/a                         n/a           Fri 2021-01-08 11:29:49 CET 10ms ago grub-boot-success.timer      grub-boot-success.service     

2 timers listed.
Pass --all to see loaded but inactive timers, too.

I had no success when trying to disable it with [pine@pinephone ~]$ systemctl --user disable grub-boot-success.timer, it still triggered at next boot and did not bother digging further as there is a plan B for that case

So, like any .service or .timer that's a bit reluctant to be disabled, I masked it

[pine@pinephone ~]$ systemctl --user mask grub-boot-success.timer
Created symlink /home/pine/.config/systemd/user/grub-boot-success.timer → /dev/null.
[pine@pinephone ~]$ sudo reboot
[sudo] password for pine: 

Checking after the phone rebooted, once shorly after boot and then again about 5 minutes later

[pine@guest47 ~]$ uptime
 11:41:49 up 1 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.74, 1.01, 0.39
[pine@guest47 ~]$ systemctl --user list-timers
NEXT                        LEFT          LAST PASSED UNIT                         ACTIVATES                     
Fri 2021-01-08 11:45:17 CET 3min 18s left n/a  n/a    systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service

1 timers listed.
Pass --all to see loaded but inactive timers, too.
[pine@guest47 ~]$ systemctl --user --failed
  UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
0 loaded units listed.
[pine@guest47 ~]$ sleep 300 ; systemctl --user --failed
  UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
0 loaded units listed.

[Cyborgscode]

Who sets a user depending timer to acknowledge a successful boot in the first place? If the user session fails, the boot itself could still be successful.

In the light of a phone, which will have ( but is not restricted to ) only one user account, I have some acceptance for it, but it's still wrong IMHO, as a user session fail will result in booting an older kernel ( in the normal grub boot process on fedora ) which will not fix the issue with userspace issues in allmost all cases.

[Cyborgscode]

Update: grub2-efi aarch64 package from fedora 34 does not get installed with a symlink error:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919907

Solution: touch /boot/grub2/grubenv

and than updating the system with dnf as usual :D

[alh61]

This is basicly a duplicate of #24 - that all grub2 code should be removed

[Cyborgscode]

Grub itself is not needed, but removing it takes some other packages with it, which may be required.

[alh61]

I don't think so. I remove everything related to Grub2 and EFI on all my nightly images. I see no reason, why it can't be removed from this image too.