Fails to save Grub configuration, after editing menu entry for Linux Mint
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Grub Customizer |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have customised the Grub2 menu for a triple-boot and all was well until I decided to 'clean up' the first line, for Linux Mint, by deleting the 'technical details' of where the installation is located, by removing all text following the letters 'KDE'. Have you any idea form your interpretation of the following error message as to why this caused the utility to abort without saving?
failed running 'grub-mkconfig -o "/boot/
Generating grub configuration file ...
File descriptor 8 (/proc/3851/mounts) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 9781: /bin/sh
No volume groups found
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.elf
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
Syntax error at line 203
Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file.
Ensure that there are no errors in /etc/default/grub
and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with
/boot/grub/
done
At this point, Grub Customizer appears to have crashed (unresponsive to attempts to close it) but I expect killing the process will do the job, without rebooting or restarting KDE.
Should have mentioned, I'm running --
LinuxMint Rosa 17.3 - KDE
Grub Customizer, most recent version, 5.0.5 .
and in this crashed condition, top shows 'kio_filenamesea' to be running and using 99.6% CPU.
After killing the above process and restarting the Customizer, the menu entry for Linux Mint is back to its 'pre-edit' (attempt) condition, and that is:
Linux Mint 17.3 KDE 32-bit, 3.13.0-24-generic (/dev/sda3)