Grub Customizer

Grub-probe Error

Bug #1362972 reported by jean-christophe manciot
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Bug Description

Launching grub-customizer as root:

grub-mkconfig couldn't be executed successfully. error message:
 Generating grub configuration file ...
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/grub/unicode.pf2GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=None'.
No path or device is specified.
Usage: grub-probe [OPTION...] [OPTION]... [PATH|DEVICE]
Try 'grub-probe --help' or 'grub-probe --usage' for more information.

It was working OK so far; the environment setting is attached below.

Tags: grub-probe
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jean-christophe manciot (manciot-jeanchristophe) wrote :
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jean-christophe manciot (manciot-jeanchristophe) wrote :

I've just found the source of this error; somehow, grub-customizer changed /etc/default/grub with a bogus last line:

GRUB_FONT="/boot/grub/unicode.pf2"GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=None

instead of:
GRUB_FONT="/boot/grub/unicode.pf2"

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