Comment 11 for bug 213006

It happened again...See the following for detailed description:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/271246/comments/7

Maybe update-grub doesn't like a menu.lst~ or a menu.lst.backup being in /boot/grub?

After fixing the problems listed in bug 271246 and removing the 2 old files, running startupmanager from a terminal window brings up the ASCI window during "Performing pre-configuration tasks" and I selected to keep the local version (I'm gonna redo it all anyways).

Did my stuff in sum, and during post-config, the ASCI window came up again...selecting to view a 3-way difference shows the following:

5a
||||||| Older
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/mapper/dereksbox-root ro
splash vga=795
=======
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/mapper/dereksbox-root ro
vga=795 splash
>>>>>>> New
.
4a
<<<<<<< Current
.

The only difference seems to be the order of vga= and splash... I selected to install the package maintainer's version (sum's?) this time.

Complete terminal log:

derek@dereksbox:/boot/grub$ sudo startupmanager
Grub2 not detected
Version: ImageMagick 6.4.5 2009-01-22 Q16 OpenMP http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... found: /grub/splashimages/grub-fingerprint-0.11.xpm.gz

Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Grub Legacy detected
Usplash detected
Splashy not detected
Using '/usr/lib/usplash/usplash-theme-ubuntu.so' to provide 'usplash-artwork.so'.
Using '/usr/lib/usplash/afisufi-high-tech-0.1-alpha-4.so' to provide 'usplash-artwork.so'.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... found: /grub/splashimages/grub-fingerprint-0.11.xpm.gz

Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Replacing config file /var/run/grub/menu.lst with new version
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Now 'ls /boot/grub | grep menu' shows:
menu.lst
menu.lst~
menu.lst.backup

They are back! Subsequent runs of sum go off without any problems. Hope this helps some.