Bug#560803: grub-pc boot menu doesn't appears after the last update

[Alain Duguet]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.97+20091210-1
Severity: important

Hello,

After the last update, which was 2009-10-12 for me, and installed apparently "grub-pc 1.97+20091210-1" and "grub-common 1.97+20091210-1", when I wanted to reboot my computer (what an idea?), I didn't see my beautiful graphic grub menu, but instead of this, I saw the ugly (for the point of view of my wife!) grub prompt. Nevertheless, I typed "configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg, and at the first time, it loaded the menu and I could simply boot the system. I reproduced the action a second time, and when I wanted to use the completion (with "tab") to complete grub.cfg, I saw some bizarre characters at the end of the line after "cfg" and was forced to delete them to load the configfile. For the moment, I downgraded to grub-legacy (to avoid my wife screaming) but I don't know what happened.


Thanks a lot for your great work!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (987, 'unstable'), (985, 'stable'), (983, 'stable'), (982, 'testing'), (980, 'testing'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (98, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
di  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.28          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.97+20091210-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
di  libc6                    2.10.2-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
di  ucf                      3.0025          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
di  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto