Grub-customizer fails to load configuration when starting application

[Peter Harvey]

When starting version 2.5.3, the main window appears, but the application does not finish loading, halting with this error:

"grub-mkconfig couldn't be executed successfully. error message:
 Generating grub.cfg ...
using custom appearance settings
Found background image: .background_cache.jpeg
tail: cannot open `(copy)' for reading: No such file or directory"

I use Ubuntu 11.10 & Unity on a 64bit system. Looking forward to having it working again.

[Daniel Richter (danielrichter2007)]

Seems to be a problem of the 05_debian_theme. It doesn't read your background image path correctly because of the space between the name and "(copy)".

A quick fix is to edit the /etc/default/grub manually and adding a "#" in front of GRUB_BACKGROUND. Then grub customizer should work. Now you should change the name of the image before using it as background.

However this is a bug of the 05_debian_theme and should be fixed by its developers...

[Peter Harvey (pdqharvey)]

I should have replied earlier - sorry - but thanks for this. I had got
it all working again by removing and reinstalling GRUB2, along with the
necessary tinkering with the proxified scripts (as far as I remember):
returning things to as 'normal' a situation as possible, then
reinstalling GC.

A straightforward uninstall process would be nice, since many of us (I,
for one) sort out the problems as we go, but have no chance of
remembering what the default situation was when we come to remove the
changed and new files. Does that make sense?

Personally, I find the plethora of options rather baffling. Would it be
a good idea to have the choice of 'sane' and 'advanced' options, or at
least some indication of which options are unlikely to be of use to the
'normal' user (if there is one). I have done a little googling on Xen,
but am none the wiser, for instance. I would have thought most users are
likely to want to show the most recent Kernel, use some customising of
options, restrict the appearance of irrelevant OSes ('loader' versions
of Windows, 'HP backup' partitions, for instance) and choose a pretty
background. But maybe I have just described my needs!

Incidentally, 'parttool' is a tremendously useful tool which I finally
discovered after a huge amount of searching, allowing you to hide
specific partitions depending on which OS you boot into. Extremely
useful for avoiding pointless clutter in the file manager. Incorporating
that into GC would be fabulous, and would enlarge its scope and appeal,
I would have thought.

Anyway, still a great program as it is. Thanks.

Peter

On 24/02/12 09:03, Daniel Richter wrote:
> Seems to be a problem of the 05_debian_theme. It doesn't read your
> background image path correctly because of the space between the name
> and "(copy)".
>
> A quick fix is to edit the /etc/default/grub manually and adding a "#"
> in front of GRUB_BACKGROUND. Then grub customizer should work. Now you
> should change the name of the image before using it as background.
>
> However this is a bug of the 05_debian_theme and should be fixed by its
> developers...
>