On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:16:33PM +0200, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2008 15:12:42 Robert Millan wrote: > > reassign 492317 kdm > > thanks > Look at > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63800 > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 02:05:01PM +0200, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > > > Further investigation shows that the error systematically occurs after > > > selecting a grub boot option from kdm. This, persists even after > > > powering-down the system before trying to reboot. Thus, kdm (version > > > 4:4.0.98-1) must be corrupting the grub configuration somehow. > > > > I wasn't aware of this feature. What is kdm exactly doing? > > > > > I am filing a kdm bug report upstream. Should the present grub bug report > > > be closed? > > > > I can't tell if this is GRUB's fault or not without an accurate description > > of what kdm is doing. > > I'm not sure what kdm is doing, as I have not taken a look at the source code. > However, I see the following in /var/log/kdm.log > > GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For > the first word, TAB lists possible command > completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible > completions of a device/filename. ] > grub> savedefault --default=5 --once > grub> > > so I see that kdm seems to run grub, and not edit menu.lst or some other hack. > > > Let's reassign this bug; later it can be moved back to GRUB if necessary. > > The grub and kdm maintainers are much more competent than I. However, I can > investigate more if no-one else is aware of the problem or cannot reproduce. > It's a bit time-consuming, so for the moment I am simply avoiding using this > feature - I'll stick to rebooting into linux :)
My summary: We found savedefault feature to be buggy and dangerous. Because of this it is disabled now in update-grub. This problem is most likely just a result of kdm enabling it. Since this chunk of code is basicaly unmaintained upstream, I don't expect that it will be fixed in the Legacy version of GRUB (specially, not in time for lenny). We intend to re-enable this functionality in GRUB 2 shortly. In the meantime I recommend that you avoid using it in GRUB Legacy. For kdm, it'd probably be a good idea to disable this feature for now. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]