Bug 815553

Summary:	Using the Beta x86_64 DVD to upgrade a F16 system to F17 (on a btrfs) leaves a 00_header.rpmsave file in /etc/grub.d/
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Trenholme <PTrenholme>
Component:	grub2	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	bcl, dennis, mads, pjones
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Description Peter Trenholme 2012-04-23 20:22:24 UTC

Description of problem:
The problem is that the grub2-mkconfig script attempts to source that file in addition to the new 00_header file. This causes the grug2-prober script to abort the generation of the new boot script.

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How reproducible: I only tried it once.


Steps to Reproduce: Run the DVD to update a F16 installation (on a btrfs, but I don't think that's relevant).
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Actual results: grub2-mkconfig aborts (causing anaconda to report that the new system "may not be bootable").


Expected results: Successful run of grub2-mkconfig


Additional info: Renaming 00_header.rpmsave to 00_header~ fixed the problem. I'd suggest that the rpm package be altered to not create (or rename) 00_header.rpmsave, or the grub2-mkconfig script be alters to it doesn't try to source the .rpmsave file.

Comment 1 Peter Trenholme 2012-04-23 20:26:11 UTC

Typo correction:

I'd suggest that the rpm package be altered to not create (or rename)
00_header.rpmsave, or the grub2-mkconfig script be altered so it doesn't try to
source the .rpmsave file.

Comment 2 Mads Kiilerich 2012-04-23 20:37:51 UTC

The files are considered configuration files and should thus be backed up.

Filtering has been fixed upstream in http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/revision/4228 and will be included in the 2.0beta4 package coming soon.

Comment 3 Mads Kiilerich 2012-04-30 23:09:41 UTC

grub2-2.0-0.24.beta4.fc17 has been pushed to f17 stable - closing.