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Bug 431717

Summary:	checkbootloader.py is relying upon comment tags within grub.conf.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	jim imgrund <wa55up>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Pradeep Kilambi <pkilambi>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jeff Browning <jbrownin>
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Priority:	low
Version:	4.8	CC:	cperry, jhutar, sstover
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Description jim imgrund 2008-02-06 16:59:20 UTC

Description of problem:
checkbootloader.py is relying upon comment tags within grub.conf.
If specific comment tag is removed, checkbootloader.py fails to recognize
bootloader as grub

if haveGrubConf:
.....
if line[0:6] == "#boot=":



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
current version of up2date installed is: up2date-4.5.5-7.e14


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit grub.conf and remove all comments
2. execute /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/checkbootloader.py
3. script is unable to recognize that grub is the bootloader
  
Actual results:


Expected results:
script should not rely upon comments within configs unless documented within the
config to not remove the comments.


Additional info:

Comment 5 Jeff Browning 2009-04-03 14:46:26 UTC

[root@dhcp77-161 up2date_client]# ./checkbootloader.py Found GRUB.

This was the result for grub.conf having comments and with all the comments deleted out. It returned GRUB as the boot loader in both cases.

Verified.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-18 20:13:50 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0972.html