Public bug reported: Startupmanager is crashing on start with following error messages :
Generating grub.cfg ... Found background image: Lake_mapourika_NZ1.tga Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-1-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.34-1-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.34 Found Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel on /dev/sdb1 Found Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (10.04) on /dev/sdc12 Found Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid) on /dev/sdc6 Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sdd1 done Grub2 detected Usplash detected Splashy not detected Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/startupmanager", line 54, in <module> main() File "/usr/sbin/startupmanager", line 51, in main SumGui() File "/usr/share/startupmanager/gtk_frontend.py", line 193, in __init__ self.setup_widgets() File "/usr/share/startupmanager/gtk_frontend.py", line 202, in setup_widgets self.set_shared_grub_widgets() File "/usr/share/startupmanager/gtk_frontend.py", line 223, in set_shared_grub_widgets self.timeout_spinner.set_value(self.grub.get_timeout()) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/bootconfig/grub.py", line 91, in get_timeout timeout = utils.extract_number(line) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/bootconfig/utils.py", line 64, in extract_number match = number_filter.search(line) TypeError: expected string or buffer Solution: Add this line: GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 (or similar) to the config. ** Affects: startup-manager Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: debian Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #589490 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589490 ** Also affects: debian via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589490 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- missing GRUB_TIMEOUT -> TypeError: expected string or buffer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631903 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : registry@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp