bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #35986, Malfunctioning editor during boot.

 
 

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bug #35986: Malfunctioning editor during boot.

Submitted by:  PaweÅ‚ Rumian <gorkypl>
Submitted on:  Sat 24 Mar 2012 01:42:48 PM UTC  
 
Category: User InterfaceSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Software Error
Status: FixedPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: Bazaar - trunkReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 24 Mar 2012 01:42:48 PM UTC, original submission:

The built-in editor seems to be malfuctioning. Precisely:
- pressing 'del' key resulted in deleting 7 chars
- the border of the edit menu screen on the right side looks broken (text goes past the border)
- GRUB seems to discard the changes made in the editor and boots with the previous options

Steps to reproduce:
- I boot to grub2
- I set the cursor on the desired line
- I press 'e' to enter edit mode
- I move down to the relevant line - in my case it is 'linux vmlinuz-old root=/dev/sda5 ro'
- I set the cursor on the '-' between 'vmlinuz' and 'old'
- I press DEL
- 7 (!) chars are deleted
- I recreate the missing part of the line, which now looks like: 'linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 ro'
- I press F10 (or Ctrl-X, result is the same) to boot
- booted kernel is still vmlinuz-old (!)

I am using sys-boot/grub-2.00_beta2-r1 in Gentoo, which is based on svn trunk version of GRUB.
The original bug report:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409341

Paweł Rumian <gorkypl>

 

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