Dangerous "lie" - Grub password not changed despite prompt "Password changed!". Running from terminal reveals "stty: standard input: Invalid argument"

[Motin]

Binary package hint: startupmanager

I can only fear how many that think they know their password for the Grub menu (they set it with sum...), just to realized the day they need to go into recovery mode that the password is wrong or even disabled!

Please at least fix a proper dialogue like "Password change failed". Thanks.

PS It doesn't matter how simple or advanced the password is

The full log when attempting password update:

$ LANG=C 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 ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... Updating the default booting kernel
done

Grub Legacy detected
Usplash detected
Splashy not detected
stty: standard input: Invalid argument
stty: standard input: Invalid argument

[Motin (motin)]

Note, when I changed it manually instead, in my menu.lst there was "# chainloader +1" on the same row as the password... like so:
password --md5 $1$/yk6//$.H7Fgtd5Eo9Hfjuy7dfh61# chainloader +1

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.