Ubuntu
grub2 package

grub menu is freezing when moving with down arrow

Bug #453369 reported by Schmirrwurst
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub2 (Ubuntu)
Expired
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Nominated for Karmic by Schmirrwurst

Bug Description

Binary package hint: grub

When trying to move two the third line from the grub menu, the menu is freezing, ctrl supr doesn't work, I need to kill the computer...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 16 20:31:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: grub (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
SourcePackage: grub
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1485): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1485): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1548): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1543): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

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Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst) wrote :

I've just seen grub was not installed... is that normal ? I've installed today with the daily iso alternated from today too...

Here is what is installed and not

||/ Nom Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un grub <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
ii grub-common 1.97~beta4-1ub GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common
un grub-coreboot <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-doc <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-efi <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-efi-amd64 <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-efi-ia32 <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-emu <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-ieee1275 <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-legacy <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-legacy-do <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
un grub-linuxbios <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
ii grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ub GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS
un grub2 <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)

Ric Flomag (ricflomag)
Changed in grub (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Julien (julienmbpe) wrote :

Schmirrwurst : as far as I know, your install seems normal.
grub-common and grub-pc are the 2 packages involved in GRUB2 (in fact GRUB 1.97-b4) all other grub packages concern grub-legacy (previous version of GRUB used in Jaunty)

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
affects: grub (Ubuntu) → grub2 (Ubuntu)
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mujaheddin (mujaheddin) wrote :

a hint to solve the issue is maybe:

At a party, a guest spilled wine over our keyboard - the right side - (some guest!!) which made the computer go crazy at boot, by assuming false key inputs (beeping as crazy, some buffer overflow) But all the time after 20 secs or so it recovered and got on with the boot, the buffer still being full I assume.

It seems that grub doesnt empty the keyboard pipe and tries to deal with all the bogus input at once, and then crashes.

so possible recreate effort might be to simulate a stuck key at boot up and going into grub.

my workaround was to put in a live disc, and then go to boot from hard disk, as the live disc does get over the false keyboard buffer.

now we restored to grub 0.97 and replaced the keyboard and all is fine.

but it might also be that we were just victim of this bug and the wine and they are not related. Good luck!!

but if it is, we can our guest be thankful for at least shedding light on this issue.

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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