version_find_latest has been removed from GRUB but grub-customizer still relies on it

[Vladimir Garistov]

When I launch grub-customizer it throws the following error (see attachment): /etc/grub.d/proxifiedScripts/linux: line 198: version_find_latest: command not found

According to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in?id=a79c567f6b5820a8795c273a9eaabd06a1f92b29 the function version_find_latest has been removed from GRUB.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.15.71-1-lts
grub-customizer version: 5.2.2

[Daniel Richter (danielrichter2007)]

This is a problem of the script update mechanism. The file /etc/grub.d/proxifiedScripts/linux is moved from /etc/grub.d/10_linux after saving any modifications the first time. When updating grub, there's a new file created at the original location (/etc/grub.d/10_linux). Grub Customizer generally detects this problem and cleans up to avoid duplicates, but cannot handle files that became incompatible. That's the bug to fix.

Here's your workaround:

sudo mv /etc/grub.d/10_linux /etc/grub.d/proxifiedScripts/linux

[Vladimir Garistov (cartogan)]

Thank you, this did solve my issue.
I would just like to add that it took me a while to identify what the problem is because the error window that I attached a screenshot of used to be taller than my monitor and cluttered with a ton of harmless LVM warnings. The actually important error message was outside the monitor and I was able to read it only after exporting LVM_SUPPRESS_FD_WARNINGS. I can't reproduce it now that grub-customizer starts normally but I thought it's something worth mentioning.

[ROSET Nathan (nathroset97)]

Hello,
I was also affected by this bug after upgrading from Kubuntu 23.04 to 23.10, however thanks to your workaround I was able to solve the issue as well. This comment is simply to signal that the bug is still present in version 5.2.4