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bug #40106: in some instances displays "unknown Linux distribution" instead of the proper name
Submitter: | Peter Passchier <pepa65> | ||
Submitted: | Thu 26 Sep 2013 12:32:34 AM UTC | ||
Category: | User Interface | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Software Error |
Status: | Invalid | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | Peter Passchier |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | other |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
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Thu 26 Sep 2013 10:47:20 PM UTC, comment #11: |
Peter Passchier <pepa65> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 10:44:29 PM UTC, comment #10: "unknown distribution" is used as collective title for entry used to boot most recent kernel and as the submenu title. |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 10:42:15 PM UTC, comment #9: Thanks, I appreciate your admonition, and having looked at the os-prober code, I agree they are fighting a losing battle to include all GNU/Linux distributions. (Except through /etc/lsb-release which is what our project will add to our baselayout.)
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Peter Passchier <pepa65> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 07:16:55 PM UTC, comment #8: Please, just help os-prober guys fix the real problem rather than making us create new problems here just to hide yours. Nobody wants to have a submenu title "text mode" just because one of OSes uses it as entry title. |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 07:02:03 PM UTC, comment #7: So where do you get that entry name from, and why do you not use it everywhere?
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Peter Passchier <pepa65> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:53:39 PM UTC, comment #6: Because later is the name of the entry and not of the OS. It can be more specific and not contain distro name at all. E.g. it could be "text mode" |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:35:42 PM UTC, comment #5: Sorry, that first attachment was from another installation.
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Peter Passchier <pepa65> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:32:31 PM UTC, comment #4: In our case, we should just attach |
Peter Passchier <pepa65> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 03:19:29 PM UTC, comment #3: I fail to see what you try to prove with this attachement. 30-os_prober always uses the second column from os-prober as entry name. |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 03:08:01 PM UTC, comment #2: Thanks for looking into this.
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Peter Passchier <pepa65> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 10:38:22 AM UTC, comment #1: We don't maintain linux-prober/os-prober |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Thu 26 Sep 2013 12:32:34 AM UTC, original submission:
This was noticed when installing Debian/sid when SolusOS (solusos.com) was already installed on another partition.
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Peter Passchier <pepa65> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2013-09-26 | pepa65 | Attached File | - | Added grub.cfg, #29231 | |
2013-09-26 | phcoder | Status | None | Invalid | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
2013-09-26 | pepa65 | Attached File | - | Added grub.cfg, #29217 |
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Yes, I get that, but how come the menuentries under the "unknown Linux distribution" submenu suddenly have the proper name (SolusOS 2)??