Same Problem here on ubuntu14.04 recently upgraded from 13.10. The workarounds setting the grub default option is not possible for me, because I am using the system with vdr. The vdr sets a wakeup-time which is programmed in the BIOS with nvram. My mainboard requires a reboot for making this setting effective which is achieved by turning the system-shutdown into a reboot and choose the last menu-entry "PowerOff". However, it turned out that this is not happening when I switch of the system with the halt-command in the grub menu entry I call after reboot. To clearify this is the content of my 40_custom:
#!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. menuentry "PowerOff" { saved_entry=0 save_env saved_entry sleep 4 halt } When I switched off the system by power key, it worked. The only way to make it work again was downgrading to the previously used version 2.00-19ubuntu2.1 and set the packages on hold in aptitude. Why are we using beta-versions in a LTS-distribution? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1311247 Title: [Grubenv] error: malformed file, press any key to continue To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/1311247/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs