Bug#494460: grub-pc: update-grub unable to generate a graphical gfxterm menu

[Javier Vasquez]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:49:12AM -0600, Familia Vasquez-Vivas wrote:
>> Package: grub-pc
>> Version: 1.96+20080724-6
>> Severity: normal
>>
>>
>> The update-grub script evaluates `font_path` in order to determine
>> whether GRUB_FONT_PATH can be set to its output.  However font_path
>> doesn't seem to be excutable...  Therefore, although $GRUB_TERMINAL
>> originally came with the nice gfxterm setting, it gets reverted to
>> console, and there's no longer graphical menu, :(...
>>
>> It was working nice to me before, not sure what happened...
>
> font_path is a shell function, declared in update-grub_lib.  Please describe
> the symptoms of your problem before jumping into conclussions.
>
> What is it exactly that you observed?

update-grub works just fine, except that I no longer get in grub.cfg
the gfxterm stuff (so I no longer get splash image menu).  This
happens only in all my i686 boxes, not in the amd64 one...  I modified
update-grub several times to identify where the problem was (with my
own debug hooks)...  Just before "case ${GRUB_TERMINAL} in" I included
'  echo "\${GRUB_TERMINAL}  ->  ${GRUB_TERMINAL}"  ', and I got
gfxterm.  I did exactly the same after that piece of code and I got
console...  So I thought that was the issue.  To my surprise, this
doesn't seem the case for amd64.

I'm sorry for jumping into conclusions too soon, but after this little
debug I thought that was the issue...

So I'll try a bit further and see if there's a difference in
update-grub that's causing i686 version not to provide me with the
nice graphical menu, :)...

> --
> Robert Millan

Thanks,

-- 
Javier