Re: Nasty bug with fonts and jpg background

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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On 21.04.2012 04:48, Chris C wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am still working on tracking this down but grub2-mkconfig bails out
> while processing the 00_header script.
>
> Line 163 of the header script:
>
> ( prepare_grub_to_access_device `${grub_probe} --target=device
> "${font_path}" )
>
> If i comment out this line it allows the program to jump over this
> script and continue.
>
> It then bails out again when you have a jpg set in
> the /etc/default/grub set. It then reports correctly yet bails out:
>
> ( terminal_output gfxterm
>   Found background: /boot/NoEvilLinux.jpg )
>
> If i remove the line out of my /etc/default/grub
>
> ( #GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/NoEvilLinux.jpg" ) then the program continues
> to process and makes a grub.cfg successfully.
>
> Of course while the program bails out it remains in the grb.cfg.new
> and is incomplete as it never got to process any further scripts
> beyond the header script.
>
> Of course the most important failure to deal with is the fonts one that
> i commented out as a quick bodge to step over it. Any help on
> tracking it down is greatly appreciated and i hope this
> helps out in making it more stable for future release.
What's the output of:
grub-probe -t device -v -v /boot/NoEvilLinux.jpg
> Thanks all and i am loving this version of grub so its well worth all
> the efforts.
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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