Ubuntu
grub package

update-grub overrides /etc/default/grub

Bug #63240 reported by Seth Randall
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grub (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When update-grub is run, the settings in menu.lst override the settings in /etc/default/grub. The behaviour I would expect would be that the settings in /etc/default/grub would take precedence otherwise there wouldn't be much point in having the file.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Currently, they take precedence when menu.lst is created for the first time, which is probably at install, before you even can have made /etc/default/grub, so yes this is pointless.

Unless you deliberately deletes the old menu.lst before you run update-grub, but that doesn't rhyme withe "update".

Changed in grub:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Javier Jardón (jjardon) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in grub:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

The bug is certainly still present because this code hasn't changed. I don't see that it's useful to set confirmed bugs back to 'incomplete' just because they're old - there's nothing incomplete in the report, and it shouldn't be discarded based on whether the submitter has time to reply to pings.

I'm actually not sure if this should be considered a bug at all, but it at least is not "incomplete".

Changed in grub:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

This has been fixed in grub2.

Changed in grub (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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