Why grubby command fails with an error "grep: /boot/grub2/grubenv: Too many levels of symbolic links"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to check the default kernel using grubby command. It fails and following error occurs:

    # grubby --default-kernel
grep: /boot/grub2/grubenv: Too many levels of symbolic links

# grubby --info=ALL | grep title 
grep: /boot/grub2/grubenv: Too many levels of symbolic links

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • UEFI
  • GRUB2

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