Bug#1025477: grub2: Regression when updating from grub2 2.06-5 to 2.06-5 breaks GRUB_GFXMODE

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 11:20:21PM +1100, Konomi Kitten wrote:
>Source: grub2
>Version: 2.06-6
>Severity: important
>X-Debbugs-Cc: konomikitten at gmail.com
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>I'm reporting against the source package because I am unsure which specific
>package of grub2 has caused this bug.
>
>After updating to version 2.06-6 my GRUB_GFXMODE line in /etc/default/grub no
>longer works. I get the following two errors displayed when grub2 first starts:
>
>Welcome to GRUB!
>
>error: no server is specified.
>error: no suitable video mode found.
>
>After this I am greeted with an extremely low resolution grub screen but the
>computer is still able to boot.

ACK, thanks for reporting. I made changes to font handling, and it
looks like this is unexpected fallout from that. I'm debugging now.

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