autocomplete in grub shell doesn't work

[Tomas Van Verrewegen]

Binary package hint: grub

I wanted to reinstall grub to the MBR, so I enter grub shell:
>sudo grub

I select the root partition:
grub>root (hd0[TAB]

and I just get a real TAB instead of autocomplete.
This behaviour occurs in Konsole, gnome-terminal and on the virtual terminals (CTRL+ALT+F1).

My system:
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
Last updated: 10 minutes ago.

[EmaRsk (emarsk)]

The same problem here, with both hardy and intrepid, 64bit version.

I found here => http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-09/msg03339.html
a similar bug report for Fedora, it is said:

   "I just removed the 64-bit version of grub on the F7 x86_64 machine and installed the 32-bit version.
    The grub shell now works properly."

[AmenophisIII (amenophisiii)]

yeah its pretty clear, that its related to using the statically linked 32bit grub on an amd64 system.
i noticed the problem myself on my intrepid amd64.
i asked a friend who confirmed, that its broken on his ubuntu amd64 pc and that it actually works on his archlinux amd64 installation.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423273 is quite interesting too because of the comment of the gentoo user...
it seems to me that grub got compiled with a wrong or faulty library in debian, ubuntu, fedora and suse (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263262) and that gentoo uses the right version of the library if it is installed by their emul-linux-x86-baselibs package (http://www.gentoo-portage.com/app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs) and archlinux is good too.

so it seems that this is not directly a grub problem, but a library/packaging problem...
thats all i was able to find out, hope it helps to fix it (asap, because grub is ~unusable interactively without it ;)

[glacialfury (glacialfury-gmail)]

This also exists in Jaunty. It makes recovery work difficult from the 64-bit Jaunty Live CD when grub can't autocomplete.

[Trey Blancher (ectospasm)]

Another vote for this, because as glacialfury stated, the grub shell is completely unusable in this state. It would be very nice if someone could identify the workaround and give step-by-step instructions on how to do it. I wouldn't begin to know how to manually install a library if that's all it takes.

[Alex EviL (alex--evil)]

Can confirm that. Please, fix that problem, it's imposible to use grub console w/o autocomplete. Problem persist in Janty and Karmic (!) also.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is no more a supported version; and grub legacy upstream is also stopped, only receiving possible random fixes locally

[Tomas Van Verrewegen (tomasvanverrewegen)]

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[Bug 282577] Re: autocomplete in grub shell doesn't work