Bug#586677: grub-common: fails to update menu.lst with grub-legacy; new version in unstable fixes it

[Pedro Ribeiro]

On 21 June 2010 17:18, Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:53:51PM +0100, Pedro R wrote:
>> Package: grub-common
>> Version: 1.98+20100617-1
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: squeeze
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the current version of grub-common in testing (1.98-1) breaks update-grub when
>> using grub-legacy.
>> It does nothing, all it says is:
>>
>> /boot/grub# update-grub
>> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
>> /boot/grub#
>>
>>
>> Updating to the version in unstable (1.98-20100617-1) solves this problem.
>
> Your Version: above doesn't seem to make sense in light of this comment.
> The Version: field should be the version in which you found the bug, not
> a version that seems to fix it.
>
> I'm not sure what might have fixed this, anyway.  Could you please run:
>
>  which update-grub
>  bash -x /usr/sbin/update-grub
>
> ... and show me the output?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]
>

Sorry, I sent this bug report after upgrading to the unstable version.

I'm sending the output of the unstable version (update-grub-good) and
the output of the testing version (update-grub-bad).

Regards,
Pedro
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