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and subject line Bug#1110934: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #465144,
regarding grub-pc: Screws up "default" entry in menu.lst when
updatedefaultentry is false
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.97~beta3-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I've upgraded grub to grub-pc, which does some magic chainloading (on my
request). However, this screwed up my default entry in menu.lst, which
used to read "default saved" and now reads "default 0saved".
>From following the logic in /usr/lib/grub-legacy/update-grub, it seems
this is caused by updatedefaultentry not being set.
The following code parses the current default entry, including the setting of
use_grub_set_default. Note that this does not happen when updatedefaultentry is
false.
#Finding the value the default line
use_grub_set_default="false"
if test "$updatedefaultentry" = "true" ; then
defaultEntryNumber=$(sed -ne
's/^[[:blank:]]*default[[:blank:]]*\(.*\).*/\1/p' $menu)
if [ "$defaultEntryNumber" = "saved" ] ; then
defaultEntryNumber=$(sed 'q' "$grub_dir/default")
use_grub_set_default="true"
fi
if test -n "$defaultEntryNumber"; then
defaultEntryNumberPlusOne=$(expr $defaultEntryNumber \+
1);
defaultEntry=$(grep "^[[:blank:]]*title" $menu | sed
-ne "${defaultEntryNumberPlusOne}p" | sed -ne
";s/^[[:blank:]]*title[[:blank:]]*//p")
defaultEntry=$(echo $defaultEntry | sed -e
"s/[[:blank:]]*$//") # don't trust trailing blanks
else
notChangeDefault="yes"
fi
else
notChangeDefault="yes"
fi
Further down, the default number is updated in the generated menu.lst file. The
actual code for the non-grub2 case is removed. Note that if grub 2 is not being
installed, the default is not changed when notChangeDefault is set, which is
the case if updatedefaultentry is false (see the final else clause above).
#Updating the default number
if [ "$LET_US_TRY_GRUB_2" = "true" ] && test -f /boot/grub/core.img ;
then
set_default_value "0"
elif test -z "$notChangeDefault"; then
[ Code removed ]
fi
This code uses the set_default_value function, which looks like:
# Function to update the default value
set_default_value() {
if [ "$use_grub_set_default" = "true" ] ; then
if [ -f /usr/lib/grub-legacy/grub-set-default ] ; then
/usr/lib/grub-legacy/grub-set-default $1
else
grub-set-default $1
fi
else
value="$1"
newmenu=$(tempfile)
sed -e
"s/^[[:blank:]]*default[[:blank:]]*[[:digit:]]*\(.*\)/default
${value}\1/;b" $menu > $newmenu
cat $newmenu > $menu
rm -f $newmenu
unset newmenu
fi
}
Here, the second half of the if contains a sed that matches numbers only (which
seems to make sense, since it only runs if use_grub_set_default is false,
right?). However, this breaks when the default config is "saved" and not a
number, which can occur as shown above.
To fix this, I'd probably change the first snippet above, to not check for
updatedefaultentry if LET_US_TRY_GRUB_2 is set. This might get complicated,
though, so perhaps something more elegant can be done?
Gr.
Matthijs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc8 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy
ii grub-common 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version
ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii ucf 3.0022 Update Configuration File: preserv
grub-pc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.9-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Apologies; this wasn't sent as part of the dak rm action. I'm doing
this by hand. Since this was manual, this opens the chance for me taking
action by mistake.
I got the list of bugs via UDD, and am closing via -close on BCC. I spot
checked about 10 of the bugs, and they're all src:grub. The COUNT
matches the tracker page, so I'm sending this.
If I have closed a bug that's not about bin:grub or src:grub, please do
re-open the bug.
paultag
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
grub | 0.97-84 | source
grub-legacy | 0.97-84 | amd64, i386
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; dead upstream, replaced by grub2
----------------------------------------------
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