[pve-devel] [PATCH kernel-helper] proxmox-boot: unconditionally mask systemd-gpt-auto-generator

[pve-devel] [PATCH kernel-helper] proxmox-boot: unconditionally mask systemd-gpt-auto-generator

[Stoiko Ivanov]

The efi.mount and efi.automount units created by this generator if:
* the ESP has the partition-type-uuid set to the ESP one
* the system uses a boot-loader that sets the LoaderUUID efivar
  (systemd-boot and grub without secure-boot enabled)
* does not have the ESP mounted by default
cause the ESP to be mounted at /efi, which in turn
cause issues when systemd-boot (metapackage) is installed/updated - as
it autoinstalls itself at /efi, but does not create the loader-entries
for the kernel, since we disabled
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-systemd-boot

Simply mask the generator, as its functionality is not needed on any
regular Proxmox system.

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
---
Tested on a VM where I reproduced the setup above. This is also why I used
the all-caps: MASKING in the output - as it's easy to overlook in the
large number of lines that are printed.
 src/proxmox-boot/zz-proxmox-boot | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/proxmox-boot/zz-proxmox-boot b/src/proxmox-boot/zz-proxmox-boot
index ad6620a..7847777 100755
--- a/src/proxmox-boot/zz-proxmox-boot
+++ b/src/proxmox-boot/zz-proxmox-boot
@@ -271,6 +271,18 @@ check_grub_efi_removable_status() {
 	echo ""
 }
 
+mask_sd_gpt_generator() {
+	generator="systemd-gpt-auto-generator"
+	mask_dir="/etc/systemd/system-generators"
+	# already masked (or re-enabled manually) - nothing to do:
+	if [ -e "$mask_dir/$generator" ]; then
+		return
+	fi
+	warn "$generator causes problems in certain configurations - MASKING it!"
+	mkdir -p "$mask_dir"
+	ln -s /dev/null "$mask_dir/$generator"
+}
+
 set -- $DEB_MAINT_PARAMS
 mode="${1#\'}"
 mode="${mode%\'}"
@@ -286,6 +298,7 @@ case $0:$mode in
 		disable_systemd_boot_hook
 		check_grub_efi_package
 		check_grub_efi_removable_status
+		mask_sd_gpt_generator
 	;;
 	 */postrm.d/*:|*/postrm.d/*:remove)
 		reexec_in_mountns "$@"
@@ -295,6 +308,7 @@ case $0:$mode in
 		disable_systemd_boot_hook
 		check_grub_efi_package
 		check_grub_efi_removable_status
+		mask_sd_gpt_generator
 	;;
 esac
 
-- 
2.39.5



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[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH kernel-helper] proxmox-boot: unconditionally mask systemd-gpt-auto-generator

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:40:59 +0200, Stoiko Ivanov wrote:
> The efi.mount and efi.automount units created by this generator if:
> * the ESP has the partition-type-uuid set to the ESP one
> * the system uses a boot-loader that sets the LoaderUUID efivar
>   (systemd-boot and grub without secure-boot enabled)
> * does not have the ESP mounted by default
> cause the ESP to be mounted at /efi, which in turn
> cause issues when systemd-boot (metapackage) is installed/updated - as
> it autoinstalls itself at /efi, but does not create the loader-entries
> for the kernel, since we disabled
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-systemd-boot
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

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