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#697
/etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg: Extraneous output line causes error message at boot
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bug#697
; Package xen-hypervisor-common
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(Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:06:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: xen-hypervisor-common
Version: 4.14.5+24-g87d90d511c-1
Severity: minor
File: /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg
Dear Maintainer,
When invoked via grub-mkconfig, xen.cfg outputs this as its first line:
Including Xen overrides from /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg
The output of grub-mkconfig is expected to be redirected into a grub.cfg file.
Grub will read the grub.cfg at boot. Unfortunately, "Including" is not a
valid grub command. So when booting, grub emits this error message before
displaying its menu:
error: can't find command `Including'.
The error message is obscured very quickly. It does not affect functionality
in any way. It requires booting on a VERY slow machine in order to read
the error message at all.
If I add a '#' to the start of the "Including", the resulting grub config file
boots with no error.
echo "#Including Xen overrides from /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg"
I'm not sure if this line was intended to go into the generated config
file as a comment, or if it was intended to be shown to the user while
grub-mkconfig is running.
I have observed this and tested my fix against version
4.14.5+24-g87d90d511c-1 of xen-hypervisor-common. I have also checked
with the debian git at https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/-/blob/master/debian/tree/xen-hypervisor-common/etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg. This line
has not changed in a very long time.
I can also duplicate the behavior using grub-emu, with the output redirected
to a file.
Thanks for your time.
-Mag
-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release: 4
Codename: chimaera
Architecture: x86_64
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg changed:
echo "Including Xen overrides from /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg"
XEN_OVERRIDE_GRUB_DEFAULT=0
if [ "$XEN_OVERRIDE_GRUB_DEFAULT" = "" ]; then
echo "WARNING: GRUB_DEFAULT changed to boot into Xen by default!"
echo " Edit /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg to avoid this warning."
XEN_OVERRIDE_GRUB_DEFAULT=1
fi
if [ "$XEN_OVERRIDE_GRUB_DEFAULT" = "1" ]; then
GRUB_DEFAULT=$( \
printf "$(gettext "%s, with Xen hypervisor")" \
"$GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR GNU/Linux")
fi
-- no debconf information
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bug#697
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(Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:52:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Message #8 received at 697@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Control: tags -1 debian
John,
Thanks.
On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 04:41:53PM -0400, John E. Krokes wrote:
> Package: xen-hypervisor-common
> Version: 4.14.5+24-g87d90d511c-1
> Severity: minor
> File: /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg
Neither grrub nor xen are forked in Devuan and we use Debian's packages directly
without recompilation. Please report this issue to Debian's BTS to be addressed.
Thanks
Mark
Added tag(s) debian.
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