Grub Customizer won't run, nothing happens...

[Nick E]

Ubuntu 12.4

Installed grub customizer via terminal, updated, etc.

tried to run via dashboard and via terminal, nothing happens.

The most I have gotten was a password screen, type it it, hit enter, nothing after.

Help?

[Arsin (divxvidvd)]

I have the same problem with grub customizer in ubuntu 12.10

[dura1198 (dura1198)]

I am also having this issue with ubuntu 12.10. Attempting to execute from menu or terminal both do nothing. Terminal output is as follows...

sudo grub-customizer
 *** initializing (w/o specified bootloader type)…
   * reading partition info…

...nothing ever opens.

[JOHN (jlumbtx)]

GRUB Customizer is in my Launch Dash Home (Ubuntu 12.10). I try to open it and enter my password.
Nothing happens.

[Marty Ballard (marty331)]

I was able to get grub-customizer to run again in Ubuntu 12.04. I deleted the PPA (through the software center), removed grub-customizer from my system and finally reinstalled:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update

Pay attention below:
sudo apt-get install -f grub-customizer

Hope this helps others.

[Stan Ham (stan7301)]

I experienced the same problem: installed, attempted to launch application, but NOTHING happened. I finally attempted to run the app from command line and got this error: grub-customizer: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. That library was, in fact installed. I then re-installed it via this command: sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a After doing so, grub customizer launches perfectly now. Hope this helps other folks.

[Daniel Richter (danielrichter2007)]

Sorry for the late answer. Seems like launchpad changed bug notification :-(

Sometimes it doesn't run because of pkexec problems.

@Nick E:
please run "grub-customizer" on the command line and show the output.

[Daniel Richter (danielrichter2007)]

No response… so I'll close this bug

[Patrick G (geek1011)]

I was not the original poster, but I had the same problem. The output is:

(grub-customizer:4842): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 8x8/emblems of theme Paper has no size field

(grub-customizer:4842): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 8x8@2x/emblems of theme Paper has no size field

(grub-customizer:4842): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 16x16@2x/panel of theme Paper has no size field

(grub-customizer:4842): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 24x24@2x/animations of theme Paper has no size field

(grub-customizer:4842): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 24x24@2x/panel of theme Paper has no size field

 *** initializing (w/o specified bootloader type)…
   * reading partition info…
   * Loading Framebuffer resolutions (background process)
   * Finding out if this is a live CD
sh: 1: hwinfo: not found
 *** initializing (w/ specified bootloader type)…
   * Checking if the config directory is clean
 *** loading configuration
 *** loading - preserveConfig: no
   * unsetting saved config
 *** loading settings
 *** loading grub list
   * loading scripts…
   * loading proxies…

[Daniel Richter (danielrichter2007)]

@Patrick G (geek1011)
This seems to be a different problem…

It could be caused by a broken configuration. Run `sudo update-grub` on command line. Are there error messages? If not, please file a new bug as it may become a longer error search then.

[dave (dave3232)]

Well I'm new on Linux. Have the same problem with grub-customizer and other simple programs that wont open as a root or normal user. I search on the internet and found one regular solution:

As a normal user (~), write: xhost +

It must output this: access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

Then run the program with sudo: sudo grub-customizer

It should open (It does for me).

[Orgil Mend-Amar (gravler)]

@dave3232 @danielrichter2007
I just installed ubuntu alongside windows 10. And i'm having the exact same proplem i tried all the solutions on this forum and none of it is working.

When i tried @dave3232 's solution it said: access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
but the grub customizer still has the same error. please help

[Anon (anon124)]

If you're on Wayland and it can be launched via command line, then the .desktop file is likely the problem.