Installs old grub on grub2 karmic systems, breaks update-grub

[Steven Wagner]

Binary package hint: grub-choose-default

Problem: All I did was install grub-choose-default from the Ubuntu Software Center. No warning about what was going to be installed came up. I quickly discovered that update-grub was no longer functional, and after investigation and logs I found that the old grub package had been installed as a dependency from grub-choose-default.

CRITICAL: grub overwrites update-grub from grub-pc, making further grub.cfg updates not possible.

Fix: Uninstall grub-choose-default from the ubuntu software center, and then manually remove the old grub pkg from the command line. Then do a reinstall of the grub2 (grub-common and grub-pc ). Now the correct update-grub has been restored.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[dave b. (d+b)]

I had to help a friend re-order their default grub "default". They had installed a free 9.10 ubuntu. Grub2 was installed. However the grub (old grub) package was still installed. I installed the dummy package grub2 which removed the old grub and reinstalled grub-pc.

This bug means that new users cannot use a graphical tool such as StartUp Manager do not work. Also sudo update-grub *does* not work either (it will not find /boot/grub/menu.lst).

[dave b. (d+b)]

Erh i fresh instead of free. (They had installed a *fresh* 9.10 ubuntu.)