Bug#494460: grub-pc: update-grub unable to generate a graphical gfxterm menu

[Familia Vasquez-Vivas]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080724-6
Severity: normal


The update-grub script evaluates `font_path` in order to determine
whether GRUB_FONT_PATH can be set to its output.  However font_path
doesn't seem to be excutable...  Therefore, although $GRUB_TERMINAL
originally came with the nice gfxterm setting, it gets reverted to
console, and there's no longer graphical menu, :(...

It was working nice to me before, not sure what happened...

Javier.


-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/hda7 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/hda5 /boot ext3 rw,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/hda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
terminal console
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
set root=(hd0,5)
search --fs-uuid --set 82bf8be6-d811-47f4-85f3-953dbf39db1f
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686" {
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=9cb9b166-e657-43b4-9b0b-acfdecf09510 ro vga=0x318 resume=/dev/hda6
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=9cb9b166-e657-43b4-9b0b-acfdecf09510 ro single vga=0x318
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.25-2-686" {
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686 root=UUID=9cb9b166-e657-43b4-9b0b-acfdecf09510 ro vga=0x318 resume=/dev/hda6
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.25-2-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686 root=UUID=9cb9b166-e657-43b4-9b0b-acfdecf09510 ro single vga=0x318
	initrd	/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file is an example on how to add custom entries
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.23          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20080724-6 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.7-13          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  liblzo2-2                2.03-1          data compression library
ii  libncurses5              5.6+20080804-1  shared libraries for terminal hand

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
pn  desktop-base                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  grub-pc/linux_cmdline: fillme
  grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true