[Bug 2086843] Re: Grub creates spurious entries in the menu

[corrado venturini]

Note:problem happens also if Grub is installed on Debian

corrado at corrado-n5-pp-1209:~$ apt policy memtest86+
memtest86+:
  Installed: 7.20-1
  Candidate: 7.20-1
  Version table:
 *** 7.20-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
corrado at corrado-n5-pp-1209:~$

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Title:
  Grub creates spurious entries in the menu

Status in grub2-unsigned package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Selecting 'advanced options' in the grub menu for my Ubuntu 24.10 I see some spurious entries in the menu displayed.
  see attached image.  
  boot partition for same os is:
  corrado at corrado-n4-noble:/media/corrado$ ls -alh /media/corrado/n7-oracular/boot/
  total 178M
  drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Oct 25 15:34 .
  drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4.0K Oct 30 09:28 ..
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 286K Sep 16 14:04 config-6.11.0-8-generic
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 286K Oct 14 13:20 config-6.11.0-9-generic
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Oct 15 13:48 efi
  drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Nov  4 14:52 grub
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   27 Oct 25 15:34 initrd.img -> initrd.img-6.11.0-9-generic
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root  65M Oct 25 15:34 initrd.img-6.11.0-8-generic
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root  65M Oct 25 15:34 initrd.img-6.11.0-9-generic
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   27 Oct  9 15:19 initrd.img.old -> initrd.img-6.11.0-8-generic
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 140K Apr  8  2024 memtest86+ia32.bin
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 141K Apr  8  2024 memtest86+ia32.efi
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 145K Apr  8  2024 memtest86+x64.bin
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 146K Apr  8  2024 memtest86+x64.efi
  -rw-------  1 root root 9.2M Sep 16 14:04 System.map-6.11.0-8-generic
  -rw-------  1 root root 9.2M Oct 14 13:20 System.map-6.11.0-9-generic
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Oct 25 15:34 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-6.11.0-9-generic
  -rw-------  1 root root  15M Sep 16 14:06 vmlinuz-6.11.0-8-generic
  -rw-------  1 root root  15M Oct 14 13:40 vmlinuz-6.11.0-9-generic
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Oct  9 15:19 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-6.11.0-8-generic

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.12-1ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-48.48-generic 6.8.12
  Uname: Linux 6.8.0-48-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Nov  7 09:23:00 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-10-29 (9 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240827.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: grub2-unsigned
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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