grub: highlighted entry blinks in text mode

Binary package hint: grub2

If grub is set to use text mode (GRUB_TERMINAL=console uncommented in /etc/default/grub), the highlighted entry of grub is blinking. This happens because of this line from /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme:

set menu_color_highlight=black/white

Bright background is not safe to use. The same bit can be interpreted as a blinking attribute. The BIOS default is blinking. I'm seeing it on Toshiba Satellite 1800. Maybe things have changes since then.

To eliminate blinking, following line should be used instead:

set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 24 16:07:14 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1378): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1378): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1435): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1440): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:1434): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -3 and height 24