Bug 1880169 - holding shift key down does not reveal GRUB menu
Summary: holding shift key down does not reveal GRUB menu
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 33
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Javier Martinez Canillas
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-09-17 20:09 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2021-11-30 18:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-11-30 18:44:49 UTC
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grub.cfg (6.68 KB, text/plain)
2020-09-17 20:10 UTC, Chris Murphy
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Description Chris Murphy 2020-09-17 20:09:09 UTC
Description of problem:

Whether qemu-kvm (only have tested virt-manager, and edk2 uefi) or baremetal (2011 mac) holding the shift key does not reveal the GRUB menu; behavior is the same as if the shift key is not held.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub2-efi-x64-2.04-31.fc33.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reboot and hold shift key
2.
3.

Actual results:

No grub menu.

Expected results:

Grub menu should not be hidden.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2020-09-17 20:09:57 UTC
# cat /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubenv
# GRUB Environment Block
saved_entry=b51b4a725db84fd286dcf4a790a50a1d-5.8.9-301.fc33.x86_64
boot_success=0
boot_indeterminate=0
menu_auto_hide=1
###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2020-09-17 20:10:48 UTC
Created attachment 1715272 [details]
grub.cfg

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2020-09-17 20:11:31 UTC
# cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="mitigations=off enforcing=0 rhgb quiet"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="iorw"
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true

Comment 4 Alessio 2020-09-17 21:20:50 UTC
I can confirm, on barematal, that holding SHIFT doens't reveal the GRUB menu.
Instead, holding F8 works.

Comment 5 Javier Martinez Canillas 2020-09-22 11:24:47 UTC
This seems to be firmware dependent since I can reproduce it on a Lenovo X1
Carbon 7th gen but I can't reproduce it on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 4th gen. On
that machine is working correctly when testing GRUB on bare metal.

I tested using a F33 live image and holding the shift key. By the way, this
can be more easily reproduced by just executing the GRUB sleep command with
the --interruptible option. Holding either the left or right shift key should
interrupt the sleep command.

I can also reproduce on OVMF when using the latest edk2-ovmf package in F32
(edk2-ovmf-20200201stable-1.fc32.noarch) and F33 (edk2-ovmf-20200801stable-1.fc33.noarch).

But this used to work with OVMF, I tested on a VM when upstreaming Hans' patches
to GRUB mainline: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=12341958d28

I don't remember what OVMF version that was though, but I'm pretty sure that
tested all the possible interrupt keys before posting that patch to grub-devel.

So this seems to be a regression in both OVMF and real firmwares. Maybe is a
bug in Tinanocore ?

The Apple machines are a special case. Since if I remember correctly there are
other things that don't work with their EFI firmware such as Ctrl-x and Ctrl-c ?

Comment 6 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2021-05-07 00:34:51 UTC
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 14:03:50 UTC
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Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 14:32:55 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
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Fedora 'version' of '33'.

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plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

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able to fix it before Fedora 33 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
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more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
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Comment 9 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 15:30:41 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '33'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 33 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2021-11-30 18:44:49 UTC
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