For whatever reason, the reports being filed against grub have tapered
off substantially over the past year even though apport never got SRUed
to lucid for this. So I don't think an SRU is warranted now.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668888
Title:
apport 'ubuntu' hook files many spurious bug reports against the grub
package
Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “apport” source package in Lucid:
Won't Fix
Status in “apport” source package in Maverick:
Fix Released
Status in “apport” source package in Natty:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: apport
When a user uninstalls the 'grub-pc' package in favor of 'grub', the
next kernel upgrade will prompt the user whether they wish to create
menu.lst, defaulting to 'no' and erroring out the package install if
they don't choose 'yes'. This is all by design, but the package
install error a) is something we want to avoid, b) results in bug
reports being filed against the grub package for what is in fact a
user error. Users should not uninstall grub-pc in favor of grub
without manually configuring it and verifying that it is installed
correctly to the right device, as this would be just as bad as failing
to install the kernel package where kernel security support is
concerned.
So we should fix the apport ubuntu general hook to give the user
immediate feedback about their configuration error, instead of leading
them to file a bug report. I think this should be fixed in the apport
package instead of in a separate grub hook, because the ubuntu hook
already contains the logic to redirect this to grub from the kernel
package and this makes it easier to eliminate false-positives; but if
others think this should be source_grub.py, I'm happy to use that
instead.
SRU justification: This should be included as an SRU to lucid and maverick
because we get at least 5 reports a week from users of these releases who have
misconfigured their systems in such a manner, requiring manual effort to close
their bugs.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bugs?field.searchtext=post-installation+1&field.status%3Alist=INVALID&field.status%3Alist=NEW
shows upwards of 100 reports of this nature filed against grub.
This can be addressed for the natty release by forward-copying the
maverick-proposed SRU to natty.
TEST CASE - on a system that was originally installed with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
or Ubuntu 10.10 media:
1) on lucid, uninstall the lucid-release version of 'linux-image-2.6.xx' if
currently installed.
2) break the system by running 'sudo apt-get install grub' and allowing
grub-pc to be removed.
3) use apt-get install to install the lucid or maverick release version of
the kernel.
4) confirm that apport steers you toward filing a bug in launchpad.
5) install apport from -proposed.
6) run 'sudo rm /var/crash/linux-image-*.crash'.
7) run 'apt-get -f install' to reattempt the installation of the kernel
package
8) confirm that apport tells you to install grub-pc, instead of steering you
to file a bug report.
9) run the indicated command to reinstall grub-pc and restore your correct
bootloader configuration.
10) if desired, remove the release version of the kernel package.
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