grub

spash image is linked to /etc/

Bug #32011 reported by Richard Ferguson
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grub
Fix Released
Undecided
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ubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Dapper
Invalid
Medium
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Bug Description

I installed dapper flight 3, after finishing all updates I rebooted to find my grub screen no longer worked. The grub splash image is now linked to a file in /etc/... which on my system is a seperate partition. This file should not be linked and should reside in /boot for situations such as mine. After removing the link and copying the splash image to the /boot/grub directory everything worked fine.

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Marc REYNES (marc-reynes) wrote :

Hello the same experience here with the lattest ubuntu-artwork (0.2.28-3) - :
/boot/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz is a link to /etc/alternatives/grub-artwork which points to /usr/share/pixmaps/grub/ubuntu-artwork.xpm.gz

In my case, my / is mounted on an LVM volume group

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Irvin Piraman (ippiraman) wrote :

I have the same problem. I had commented out the splash image entry to grub's menu.lst in order for the menu to be displayed.

Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

please remove the splashimage= line from /boot/grub/menu.lst. We experimented with adding a splash image by default for dapper but because the alternatives system we used was not suited it was removed again. There is no automatic cleanup implemented, sorry for this.

Cheers,
 Michael

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This is no longer a problem in current grub in dapper. Please remove the splashimage= line manually if you still have it.

Changed in grub:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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Andrzej Mendel-Nykorowycz (kelner) wrote :

This is quite a problem in edgy. After updating to it, I couldn't see grub menu because the splashimage got deleted during some ubuntu-artwork. Perhaps update-grub could check whether the referenced image actually exist and comment out splashimage= line if it doesn't?

Jerone Young (jerone)
Changed in grub:
status: New → Fix Released
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