Ran the recommended here grub2-install as part of F38 post-upgrade cleanup tasks on a VM guest, just like before with F37. Upon reboot, my guest spews paginated screens after screens of error: ../../grub-core/fs/xfs.c:541:not a correct XFS inode. but eventually displays the boot menu, and finally b…

Fixed my issue by doing a dnf downgrade grub2-tools, which downgraded grub2-tools to rev. 2.06-89 (and pulled along grub2-common, grub2-pc, grub2-pc-modules, and grub2-tools-minimal as dependencies), then issuing grub2-install again; upon reboot all the errors are gone. QA team identified an offend…

Have you tried running fsck on your xfa file systems to see if there is a problem?

fsck -NV reports exactly nothing, xfs_repair -nv doesn’t seem to pick on anything suspicious, either: Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... - block cache size set to 184712 entries Phase 2 - using internal log - zero log... zero_log: head block 186 tail block 186 - scan fi…

Are you planning to upgrade to F39? If so do that upgrade and see if the problem still exists.

A little queasy about doing a system upgrade from an unstable state… Ran a few more check & the sequence is quite predictable, requiring (initially) 43 spacebar presses to page through the errors until the menu, then 33 more until Press any key to continue..., after which F38 boots fine. Ran xfs_r…

The following workaround is also available: Grub2-install results in "not a correct XFS inode" - #28 by alexonoliveira

GRUB broken after upgrade to F38

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mstruzak (Marcin Struzak) January 8, 2024, 2:39am 7

It seems F39 has the exact same issue: Grub2-install results in “not a correct XFS inode”

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