grub-installer failing on Hardy kickseed when "bootloader --md5pass" is set

[Jessica Greer]

Looks as though kickseed (0.48) has not been updated to reflect the recent changes to grub-installer (https://cia.vc/stats/project/grub-installer, 00:54 on Apr 15).

The installer fails with "grub-installer: error: Preseeding of encrypted passwords changed! Check installation guide." It appears to me that kickseed's bootloader.sh handler is passing a boolean to 'grub-installer/password-crypted' rather than an MD5 checksum and is not setting 'grub-installer/password-again'.

TEST CASE:

  1) Create a file on an HTTP server containing just the line 'bootloader --md5pass $1$eURfjafX$MhF/cvWmFQWYXkCHpt1tM1' (that's an MD5-crypted version of 'foo').

  2) Boot from the alternate or server install CD; press F6 at the boot menu and add 'ks=URL' to the boot menu, where 'URL' is the URL to the file you created in step 1.

  3) Install as normal. On failure, the error described in the bug will occur (displayed in the syslog or on Alt-F4); on success, the installation will proceed normally. When the GRUB menu is displayed after the first reboot (you may have to press Escape to get it to be displayed), trying to edit a menu entry by pressing 'e' should require the password 'foo'.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks! I've committed a fix upstream and will backport this for 8.04.1.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Uploaded to hardy-proposed. Patch attached for SRU purposes.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

accepted into hardy-proposed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kickseed - 0.49

---------------
kickseed (0.49) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adjust 'bootloader --md5pass' for changes in grub-installer 1.31
    (LP: #221501).
  * Use 'sed -i' to change /target/etc/nsswitch.conf (thanks, Christer
    Edwards).

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:21:15 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This may now be verified using the images here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-proposed/main/installer-i386/current/

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Note that you need to put "apt-setup/proposed=true" on the kernel command line, until such time as the -19 kernel lands in -updates.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

hardy test CD images are now available which include the updated installer
components that address this bug:

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/hardy/daily/20080612.4/

Please test these images and report your results so we can verify whether
this bug is fixed.

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[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

I've reproduced the original problem on the released Hardy 8.04 iso images, and verified that grub-install properly writes the password line into menu.lst using the 8.04.1 daily iso image (from 20080612.4).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates.