[bug #29251] grub themes fail to load due to dependencies

[Mario Vazquez]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29251>

                 Summary: grub themes fail to load due to dependencies
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: mariovazq
            Submitted on: Thu 18 Mar 2010 07:51:59 AM GMT
                Category: User Interface
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Action Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Mario Vazquez
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 1.98
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Grub 1.98 comes with the gfxmenu patch.  The code used to include the entries
in 00_header currently only adds the theme name, but nothing else.  Due to
either a bug or feature, currently grub do not load dependencies
automatically.  This means that when using a theme, it will not load the image
modules or fonts required by the selected theme, making it to fail to load at
all.

I included a patch that searches the theme directory, and add the entries
just before the theme file.
 
How to reproduce:
  1. Put a GRUB_THEME entry with your theme in /etc/default/grub.
  2. Generate your grub.cfg with grub-mkconfig
  3. Reboot
  4. The theme will not load at all.

The patch was tested against both grub 1.98 and trunk r2263





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File Attachments:


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Date: Thu 18 Mar 2010 07:51:59 AM GMT  Name: gfxmenu-dependencies.patch 
Size: 1kB   By: mariovazq

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=19972>

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