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bug #41918: Misleading warning

Submitted by:  Sworddragon <sworddragon>
Submitted on:  Fri 21 Mar 2014 03:10:28 AM UTC  
 
Category: ConfigurationSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Software Error
Status: InvalidPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: otherReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Wed 10 Dec 2014 11:20:06 PM UTC, comment #4:

There is probably a similar bug report on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1258597

Sworddragon <sworddragon>
Wed 10 Dec 2014 07:19:46 AM UTC, comment #3:

This sounds distro-specific. Upstream does not have update-grub, nor do we set timeout to 10s anywhere. Can you reproduce it with upstream?

Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar>
Project Member
Wed 26 Mar 2014 08:50:57 AM UTC, comment #2:

The commit was made at 2013-12-24 16:26:05 (GMT) and GRUB 2.02~beta2 was registered at 2013-12-24 20:53:40 (GMT) but I'm still seeing this bug with GRUB 2.02~beta2. Or is this commit not included in GRUB 2.02~beta2?

Sworddragon <sworddragon>
Wed 26 Mar 2014 07:41:37 AM UTC, comment #1:

Already changed in 569766e49b9d9113d652b394456adb819cb89cd6

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Fri 21 Mar 2014 03:10:28 AM UTC, original submission:

A little note: The release is 2.02~beta2 but it is not in the list. Now to the report:

In /etc/default/grub I have set among other things GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0, GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true, GRUB_TIMEOUT=15 and GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE is not set. On executing update-grub I'm getting the following output:

Generating grub configuration file ...
Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported.
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-18-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-18-generic
Found Microsoft Windows XP Professional on /dev/sda2
done

If I'm doing now a reboot the timeout will be 10 seconds instead of 15 seconds as expected. But interestingly if I'm setting GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE to a valid value (for example menu) the warning on executing update-grub does not appear anymore and the timeout will be 15 seconds.

If this is the expected behavior the warning is a little misleading as it is not completely true.

Sworddragon <sworddragon>

 

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