[Bug 1070534] Re: Boot-related package updates disable Grub timeout each update

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Boot-related package updates disable Grub timeout each update

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 12.04 x64 and Ubuntu 12.10 x64 have been a horrible adventure
  for booting.  When a package update is installed that modifies
  anything within /boot/, the Grub configuration stops automatically
  loading Ubuntu.  This means that the remote server ends up offline
  until someone physically goes to the system and hits any key to load
  Ubuntu.  I expected it to always timeout and boot which it loses the
  ability to do after every round of updates are installed.  I do
  package updates every couple of weeks.

  This has been going on with every updated package since 12.04 was
  installed in April 2012.  It's impossible as far as I know to figure
  out the name of all packages from then til now for both of the
  affected releases.

  My temporary solution has been to run Boot Repair after every software
  update so that Grub is reconfigured to automatically boot.  Today, it
  was stuck yet again.  I used Grub Customizer to select the boot option
  for "Ubuntu" and to re-enable the timeout variable which was again
  disabled.

  A long thread of this matter can be found at
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2050035.  Originally, boot/
  was part of the root partition.  It was separated out to its own
  partition.  This didn't help.  Lot's has been attempted and reviewed.
  The problem just keeps reappearing.

  Today's pastebin logs:
  Before attempting to fix problem:  http://paste.ubuntu.com/1300086/
  After first attempt which did not fix problem with BR:  http://paste.ubuntu.com/1300090/
  Problem fixed after manual variable modifications using GC:  http://paste.ubuntu.com/1300585/

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