[lubuntu-users] Error: "system program problem" . . . the new mouse sweeps clean?

Sun Jun 30 07:20:49 UTC 2019

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 22:50:10 -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 04:00:55PM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote:  
>> there are some "issues" that go along with running
>> multi-boot systems    
>
>Yes, this! I totally caution people against them.  

Hi,

there are absolutely no issues related to multi-boot machines [1].

In the past I have used grub legacy as well as grub 2, with a hand
written menu.lst or grub.cfg, even with chainloading FreeBSD or Windows,
too.

Just turn off that automations that write grub configurations, that
are as messy as the emails of the OP send to this mailing list.

To write readable emails I recommend to use a decent MUA.

To get rid of messy grub configurations, disable the automation, in a
way that they even can't come back by accident (e.g. during an upgrade
or release upgrade).

I wrote a script to do that, since updating the configuration is time
consuming and gains nothing. I'm using syslinux anyway, but it's easier
to keep an unused grub, due to dependencies enforced by Ubuntu and
since working around the bootloader dependencies comes with pitfalls.

See [2] for how to use dpkg-divert.

[1]
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
# http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu

PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 600
UI menu.c32
MENU HIDDEN
MENU CLEAR
MENU COLOR screen      0;30;40
MENU COLOR border      0;30;40
MENU COLOR title       1;37;44
MENU COLOR unsel       0;37;40
MENU COLOR hotkey      1;37;40
MENU COLOR hotsel      7;37;40
MENU COLOR sel         7;37;40
MENU COLOR disabled    1;37;40
MENU COLOR scrollbar   0;30;40
MENU COLOR tabmsg      0;30;40
MENU COLOR cmdmark     0;31;40
MENU COLOR cmdline     0;37;40
MENU COLOR timeout_msg 0;37;40
MENU COLOR timeout     1;37;40

# Used hotkeys: ^8 ^A ^C ^e ^f ^H ^i ^K ^M ^n ^o ^P ^Q ^R ^S ^t ^V ^y
DEFAULT Cornflower

MENU TITLE HAL 9000-s3
LABEL Toolbox
    MENU LABEL Toolbox
    MENU DISABLE
MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL Hardware
    MENU LABEL ^Hardware Detection
    COM32 hdt.c32

LABEL Memtest
    MENU LABEL Memtest^86+
    LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/memtest86+.bin

LABEL Reset
    MENU LABEL R^eset
    COM32 reboot.c32

MENU SEPARATOR
MENU SEPARATOR
LABEL Arch Menu
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux
    MENU DISABLE
MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL Threadirqs
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux ^threadirqs
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro threadirqs
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL Threadirqs_nopti
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux threadirqs ^nopti
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro threadirqs nopti
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL Securityink
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt ^Securityink
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-securityink
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt-securityink.img

# https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2018-November/295925.html
LABEL Securityink_no_micro
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt Securityink no micro
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-securityink
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-rt-securityink.img

# https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-proaudio/2018-February/000078.html
LABEL Securityink_nopti
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt Securityink nopt^i
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-securityink
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro nopti
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt-securityink.img

LABEL Pussytoes
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt ^Pussytoes
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-pussytoes
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt-pussytoes.img

LABEL Pussytoes_nopti
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt Puss^ytoes nopti
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-pussytoes
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro nopti
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt-pussytoes.img

LABEL Cornflower
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt ^Cornflower
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-cornflower
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt-cornflower.img

LABEL Cornflower_nopti
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt Corn^flower nopti
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-cornflower
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro nopti
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt-cornflower.img

LABEL Rt
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux ^Rt
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt.img

LABEL Rt_nopti
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt n^opti
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro nopti
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux-rt.img

LABEL Arch
    MENU LABEL ^Arch Linux
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
    APPEND root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro
    INITRD ../intel-ucode.img,../initramfs-linux.img

MENU SEPARATOR
MENU SEPARATOR
LABEL Other Menu
    MENU LABEL Other Linux
    MENU DISABLE
MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL Moonstudio
    MENU LABEL Ubuntu X ^Moon Studio lowlatency
    LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/vmlinuz-lowlatency
    APPEND root=LABEL=moonstudio ro
    INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/initrd.img-lowlatency

LABEL Moonstudio_nopti
    MENU LABEL Ubuntu X Moon Studio lowlatency nopti (no ^KPTI)
    LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/vmlinuz-lowlatency
    APPEND root=LABEL=moonstudio ro nopti
    INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/initrd.img-lowlatency

LABEL Light
    MENU LABEL Ubuntu ^Q LightScribe Rt (no bind to /boot)
    LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_q/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14
    APPEND root=LABEL=q ro nomodeset
    INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_q/boot/initrd.img-3.6.5-rt14

LABEL Suse
    MENU LABEL ^Vintage  SUSE 11.2   Rt (no bind to /boot)
    LINUX /.boot/suse11.2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-rt19
    APPEND root=LABEL=suse11.2
    INITRD /.boot/suse11.2/boot/initrd-2.6.31.6-rt19

[2]
[weremouse at moonstudio src]$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial
[weremouse at moonstudio src]$ grub-mkconfig

 grub-mkconfig was renamed grub-mkconfig.real

[weremouse at moonstudio src]$ update-grub

 update-grub was renamed update-grub.real

[weremouse at moonstudio src]$ ./dpkg-divert-grub.sh --list
local diversion of /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig to /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig.real
local diversion of /usr/sbin/update-grub to /usr/sbin/update-grub.real
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  138 Feb  6  2017 /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7.9K Apr 29 21:04 /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig.real
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  138 Feb  6  2017 /usr/sbin/update-grub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   64 Apr 26 21:47 /usr/sbin/update-grub.real
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 Apr 29 21:05 /usr/sbin/update-grub2 -> update-grub
[weremouse at moonstudio src]$ cat dpkg-divert-grub.sh 
#!/bin/bash

divert () {
cat<<EOF
#!/bin/dash
name=\$(echo \$(basename \$0) | sed -e 's/[0-9]\+ *//')
printf "\n \033[7m\$(basename \$0) was renamed \$name.real\033[0m\n\n"
exit
EOF
}

case $1 in

  --add)
    for s in grub-mkconfig update-grub
    do
      s=/usr/sbin/$s
      dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert $s.real $s && divert > $s
      chmod a+x $s
    done;;

  --remove)
    for s in grub-mkconfig update-grub
    do
      s=/usr/sbin/$s
      rm $s && dpkg-divert --rename --remove $s
    done;;

  --list)
    dpkg-divert --list | grep "local diversion of"
    ls -hlv /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig* /usr/sbin/update-grub*|grep -v "gf"
    ;;
  *)
    cat $0;

  esac

exit

-- 
pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-cornflower,,-pussytoes,-securityink}}|cut -d\  -f2
5.1.15.arch1-1
5.0.21_rt14-0
5.0.19_rt11-1
5.0.14_rt9-0
4.19.50_rt22-0