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Universal Blue•3w ago
Archaic

Failed to finalize previous deployment

Experiencing a similar issue on my ASUS Laptop to the one described by another user in February. https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1343354081871401020/1343354081871401020 Attempting to update or rebase does not work, and gives this error in rpm-ostree status. 
Warning: failed to finalize previous deployment
         error: Bootloader write config: grub2-mkconfig: Child process exited with code 1
         check `journalctl -b -1 -u ostree-finalize-staged.service` 
Warning: failed to finalize previous deployment
         error: Bootloader write config: grub2-mkconfig: Child process exited with code 1
         check `journalctl -b -1 -u ostree-finalize-staged.service`
Solution:
Ended up reinstalling Bazzite from an image on USB, which fixed the problem. Had no problems then upgrading to Bazzite 42.
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Archaic
ArchaicOP•3w ago
Running the journalctl command above gives 
 Apr 14 15:57:21 Laptop systemd[1]: Finished ostree-finalize-staged.service - OSTree Finalize Staged Deployment.
Apr 14 15:59:26 Laptop systemd[1]: Stopping ostree-finalize-staged.service - OSTree Finalize Staged Deployment...
Apr 14 15:59:26 Laptop ostree[9954]: Finalizing staged deployment
Apr 14 15:59:27 Laptop ostree[9954]: Copying /etc changes: 22 modified, 2 removed, 119 added
Apr 14 15:59:27 Laptop ostree[9954]: Copying /etc changes: 22 modified, 2 removed, 119 added
Apr 14 15:59:27 Laptop ostree[9954]: Refreshing SELinux policy
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9954]: Refreshed SELinux policy in 868 ms
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9954]: Finalized deployment
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9954]: bootfs is sufficient for calculated new size: 167.5 MB
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9974]: /usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `composefs'.
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9954]: error: Bootloader write config: grub2-mkconfig: Child process exited with code 1
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop systemd[1]: ostree-finalize-staged.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop systemd[1]: ostree-finalize-staged.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop systemd[1]: Stopped ostree-finalize-staged.service - OSTree Finalize Staged Deployment.
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop systemd[1]: ostree-finalize-staged.service: Consumed 1.838s CPU time, 438.8M memory peak. 
 Apr 14 15:57:21 Laptop systemd[1]: Finished ostree-finalize-staged.service - OSTree Finalize Staged Deployment.
Apr 14 15:59:26 Laptop systemd[1]: Stopping ostree-finalize-staged.service - OSTree Finalize Staged Deployment...
Apr 14 15:59:26 Laptop ostree[9954]: Finalizing staged deployment
Apr 14 15:59:27 Laptop ostree[9954]: Copying /etc changes: 22 modified, 2 removed, 119 added
Apr 14 15:59:27 Laptop ostree[9954]: Copying /etc changes: 22 modified, 2 removed, 119 added
Apr 14 15:59:27 Laptop ostree[9954]: Refreshing SELinux policy
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9954]: Refreshed SELinux policy in 868 ms
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9954]: Finalized deployment
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9954]: bootfs is sufficient for calculated new size: 167.5 MB
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9974]: /usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `composefs'.
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop ostree[9954]: error: Bootloader write config: grub2-mkconfig: Child process exited with code 1
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop systemd[1]: ostree-finalize-staged.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop systemd[1]: ostree-finalize-staged.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop systemd[1]: Stopped ostree-finalize-staged.service - OSTree Finalize Staged Deployment.
Apr 14 15:59:28 Laptop systemd[1]: ostree-finalize-staged.service: Consumed 1.838s CPU time, 438.8M memory peak.
ujust regenerate-grub gives the following: 
/usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `composefs'.
error: Recipe `regenerate-grub` failed with exit code 1
/usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `composefs'.
error: Recipe `regenerate-grub` failed with exit code 1
I've attempted to use Bazzite Rollback Helper to rebase to the latest bazzite-asus:stable image, however while that seems to run fine, after completing the reboot and checking rpm-ostree status I can see the same error is there, and nothing's actually changed in the backend.
Solution
Archaic
Archaic•2w ago
Ended up reinstalling Bazzite from an image on USB, which fixed the problem. Had no problems then upgrading to Bazzite 42.

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