Package: grub
Version: 0.97-21
Severity: important
Since update-grub writes to stdout, it breaks the debconf integration
of the kernel postrm scripts, rendering kernels impossible to remove.
Here is an (untested) patch.
--- /usr/sbin/update-grub.old 2007-01-14 17:16:52.000000000 -0800
+++ /usr/sbin/update-grub 2007-01-31 10:10:01.000000000 -0800
@@ -394,9 +394,9 @@
## End Configuration Options
-echo -n "Searching for default file ... "
+echo -n "Searching for default file ... " >&2
if [ -f "$default_file" ] ; then
- echo "found:" $default_file
+ echo "found: $default_file" >&2
else
- echo "Generating $default_file file and setting the default boot entry to 0"
+ echo "Generating $default_file file and setting the default boot entry to 0"
>&2
grub-set-default 0
fi
@@ -1009,5 +1009,5 @@
found=1
- echo "Found Xen hypervisor $hypervisorVersion, kernel:
$kernel"
+ echo "Found Xen hypervisor $hypervisorVersion, kernel:
$kernel" >&2
write_kernel_entry "$kernelVersion" '' ''
"$grub_root_device" \
@@ -1021,5 +1021,5 @@
hypVersion=`basename "$hypervisor" .gz | sed s%xen-%%`
- echo "Found Xen hypervisor $hypVersion, kernel:
$kernel"
+ echo "Found Xen hypervisor $hypVersion, kernel:
$kernel" >&2
write_kernel_entry "$kernelVersion" '' ''
"$grub_root_device" \
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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