Creates recursive duplicate (triplicate, ..., n-plicate) entries

[madpentiste]

I am running Grub Customizer (later referred to as G-C) under Ubuntu-Mate 14.04.

I have two systems on my hard drive (both Ubuntu-Mate 14.04.), as I use one as a backup (and small) system in case of failure of the main one.

I ran Grub-Customizer, in order to rename some entries. Two things happened:

1) G-C created an unwanted number of entries, that is the desired ones (the two systems and their "rescue" mode), plus a good dozen of additional entries with various names; these names were combinations of initial names (before running G-C), new names (as entered with G-C), and disk partition names.

2) In an attempt to get rid of all the unwanted entries, I "discarded them" with G-C, but in that case they stayed hidden and were never completely discarded.

This is not a major problem as far as I have the grub menu I wanted, but it defeats quite a bit the goal of having a customizer which gets populated with too many entries and keep them forever, with no real deletion possibility.

I purged and reinstalled both grub-pc and grub-customizer, hoping to start from scratch again, to no avail: the unwanted, numerous entries were still there (as hidden).

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Bug (electronic.bug)]

Affects me too :-(

[Daniel Richter (danielrichter2007)]

It's not a bug. It's a feature :-)

The reason: Grub 2 generates those entries automatically based on installed operating systems. This happens whenever you run grub-mkconfig/update-grub or load/save with grub customizer. Grub customizer is just a filter to these entries. This way everything stays dynamic: New operating systems are found automatically, deleted operating systems disappear completely without anything to do.

And this is the way you have to go: If you want to get rid of old kernel entries, you have to uninstall them, using your package manager. They are named like linux-image-xxx und linux-headers-xxx.