Bug#328225: grubconf destroys menu.lst

[M. Dietrich]

Package: grubconf
Version: 0.5.1-4
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


i checked grubconf today. after playing around i pressed 'Revert' and
after that i choose 'close'. the dialog did not close. so i pressed
the close-button of the windowmanager. the dialog stayed (i waited
several seconds after each buttonpress) after that i stopped the
program by pressing ^C on the console where i started it. 

after that i ended up with two empty files: menu.lst and menu.lst~
with size 0. i did not recognize that, rebooted and had to type in the
commands by hand :(

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages grubconf depends on:
ii  grub                 0.95+cvs20040624-17 GRand Unified Bootloader
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.10.1-2            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0        0.2.6-6             Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.10.0-1            Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.10.0-1            The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.5-6             GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd 0.2.36-1            Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4          2.10.1-2            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11          1.2.1-4             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.8.0-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0    0.4.3-2             GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0          2.10.1-1            The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.10.2-2            A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.10.1-1            The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.10.1-5            The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11          1.0.16-13.1         GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0        1.1-4               library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.10-1            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              6.8.2.dfsg.1-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62            6b-10               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.2-3          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.2-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6               6.8.2.dfsg.1-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2           0.2.13-1            Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6             6.8.2.dfsg.1-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2              2.6.21-1            GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                6.8.2.dfsg.1-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3-4           compression library - runtime

grubconf recommends no packages.

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