No way to debug grub.cfg generation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Cosmic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Any user who wants to understand how /boot/grub/grub.cfg is being generated. This is especially useful on dynamically-
[Test case]
1) Run 'update-grub'
2) Verify that messages are displayed to describe which files are being read:
$ sudo update-grub
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Generating grub configuration file ...
[...]
[Regression potential]
Watch out for any issues generating a correct and/or complete grub.cfg for next boot; missing kernels in the boot menu, or any missing kernel command-line parameters for a kernel booted after grub.cfg has been regenerated.
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It's really hard to debug what happens to generate grub.cfg -- no way to know what files (from /etc/default/grub, /etc/default/
description: | updated |
Fixed in 2.02+dfsg1-5ubuntu9 in disco.