Karmic: splash is added to recovery mode kernel with update-grub

[dentaku65]

In karmic I've noted that splash entry in the grub.cfg is present in the line of recovery mode:

menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-5-generic (recovery mode)" {
 set root=(hd0,1)
 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set b9b35c5e-8eee-408e-a72a-9c0505620ad0
 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-5-generic root=UUID=b9b35c5e-8eee-408e-a72a-9c0505620ad0 ro single splash #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX
_UUID=true quiet
 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-5-generic
}

This causing freeze on recovery menu (not possible to use arrow keys, hard reboot needed); removing splash from grub editing command line at boot then booting with ctrl-x recovery it works.

I follow this guide to modify the entry in grub.cfg
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#User-defined%20Entries
but when I load the command after the changes
sudo update-grub
the splash line on recovery kernel is put it back.

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

I haven't seen this in my grub.cfg.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Did you perhaps upgrade from an early version of grub2? This is probably caused by an incorrect /etc/default/grub file. The current default looks like this:

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

... but if instead you had:

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash"

... then you'd find those options added to recovery mode as well as normal mode.

[dentaku65 (dentaku65)]

No installed from scratch Alpha 3.
I just used startupmanager adding 10 seconds before the boot instead 5 seconds.
But when the new grub2 update 3 days ago has been proposed I've choose the maintainer configuration.

[dentaku65 (dentaku65)]

this is my /etc/default/grub

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=3
GRUB_TIMEOUT=6
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="splash #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true quiet"

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This last line is badly garbled:

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="splash #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true quiet"

The stock file in the package says:

  #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

You should replace your last line with the stock one to fix this bug.

Something clearly went wrong when you chose to replace your existing configuration with the maintainer configuration. Did you use an editor to do this, or did you select a choice in a dialog?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Oh, and did you use startupmanager after the upgrade too, or only before?

[dentaku65 (dentaku65)]

I select the maintainer one as choice in the dialog.
I used startupmanager before and after.

ok, changhing the last line as indicated by Colin fix the problem with
sudo update-grub

[Joshua (joshudson)]

I can confirm this does in fact happen and believe this fixed in lucid.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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