Bug#726916: grub-pc: grub is very slow and no welcome to grub is shown

[Anders Lagerås]

On 2014-04-30 14:46, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:20:47AM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 04:36:56PM +0200, Anders Lagerås wrote:
>>> Package: grub-pc
>>> Version: 2.00-19
>>> Severity: important
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>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>> Grub is very slow, it takes like 10 minutes of waiting until the kernel is being loaded.
>>> Before that no welcome to grub is shown and no boot menu, the screen is just black.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Same thing has started to happen here, with 2.02~beta2-9 installed. During
>> last week it started to show these symptoms, but with a shorter waiting
>> time.
>>
>> However, today I had to wait for 10 minutes until grub showed the boot menu,
>> no welcome to grub shown as in original report.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Seems I got the reason for this problem, at least in my system. Apparently a
> test in 40grub2 is only valid for LANG={C,en_*} and causes problems for other
> LANG values. It has already been reported to Ubuntu launchpad, and as
> mentioned in that bug report, the same delay happens when running
> update-grub, becoming larger with each run.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/1176652
> [40grub2 gets confused for menuentry generated in other languages]
> 
> My grub.cfg had become as large as 7441128. Renamed to something else in
> case it was needed and reinstalled grub2. Size of new grub.cfg is 28139, far
> smaller, and problem seems to have disappeared.
> 
> Anders, Is your grub.cfg also oversized?
> 
> Regards,
> 

I don't know. It started to work again after newer version ogf grub was
installed and with the current version of grub it works as supposed. At
least now grub.cfg is 7312 bytes.

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Mvh Anders Lagerås

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