Message ID | alpine.LFD.2.21.1908132143580.3016@austen3.home (mailing list archive) |
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State | New, archived |
Headers | show |
Series | failing to set value to 0 in Grub2ConfigFile | expand |
On 13/08/2019 22:02, YOUNG, MICHAEL A. wrote: > I have been looking at the pygrub code to see if it is possible to cope > with grub files with BLSCFG and spotted this minor issue in GrubConf.py > where the code intends to replace ${saved_entry} and ${next_entry} with 0 > but doesn't succeed. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> Ah - this looks suspiciously like it might be the bugfix for an issue reported by Steven. Steven - do you mind giving this patch a try for your "Fedora 30 DomU - pygrub always boots the second menu option" problem? ~Andrew From a08eff9b1b881dc61f9427153706e2d5b3bd0e01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:15:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] failing to set value to 0 in Grub2ConfigFile In Grub2ConfigFile the code to handle ${saved_entry} and ${next_entry} sets arg = "0" but this now does nothing following "tools/pygrub: Make pygrub understand default entry in string format" d1b93ea2615bd789ee28901f1f1c05ffb319cb61 which replaced arg.strip() with arg_strip in the following line. This patch restores the previous behaviour. --- tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py b/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py index 594139bac7..73f1bbed2f 100644 --- a/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py +++ b/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ class Grub2ConfigFile(_GrubConfigFile): arg_strip = arg.strip() if arg_strip == "${saved_entry}" or arg_strip == "${next_entry}": logging.warning("grub2's saved_entry/next_entry not supported") - arg = "0" + arg_strip = "0" setattr(self, self.commands[com], arg_strip) else: logging.info("Ignored directive %s" %(com,))
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 13/08/2019 22:02, YOUNG, MICHAEL A. wrote: >> I have been looking at the pygrub code to see if it is possible to cope >> with grub files with BLSCFG and spotted this minor issue in GrubConf.py >> where the code intends to replace ${saved_entry} and ${next_entry} with 0 >> but doesn't succeed. >> >> Signed-off-by: Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> > > Ah - this looks suspiciously like it might be the bugfix for an issue > reported by Steven. > > Steven - do you mind giving this patch a try for your "Fedora 30 DomU - > pygrub always boots the second menu option" problem? Sadly I don't think it is that simple and to it properly would require parsing if clauses in the grub file and also reading variables from the grubenv file. I do however have an idea which might work which is to ignore anything in if clauses, read the grubenv file (which I now have a hacky way of doing) and treating the value of next_entry or saved_entry as the setting for the default kernel to pick. If I finish a patch that does this I will post it on the list, but I very much doubt it will be of commitable quality. Michael Young
I've had a tinker with the patch - I don't have a Fedora build system atm - so I just edited the file on the Dom0 and removed the pyc/pyo files. Same issue: pyGRUB version 0.6 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Fedora (5.2.6-200.fc30.x86_64) 30 (Thirty) │ │ Fedora (0-rescue-ee4b18b1898e4bf2b36ff71077b23b5e) 30 (Thirty) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted. Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the commands before booting, 'a' to modify the kernel arguments before booting, or 'c' for a command line. The rescue entry is selected in the above example. My crappy hack has been to edit /usr/libexec/xen/bin/pygrub and add sel=0 as follows: def image_index(self): if isinstance(self.cf.default, int): sel = self.cf.default elif self.cf.default.isdigit(): sel = int(self.cf.default) sel = 0 else: I know this is horrible! I'm still disabling BLSCFG in /etc/default/grub - otherwise the pygrub menu is completely empty. I don't know what the solution is right now - but I do somewhat agree with ignoring anything inside an if statement in grub.cfg - as the logic is ignored anyway. Do you still need to read the grubenv in doing this? I assume the read for grubenv is to get the 'saved_entry' value? Steven Haigh
On 13/08/2019 22:02, YOUNG, MICHAEL A. wrote: > I have been looking at the pygrub code to see if it is possible to cope > with grub files with BLSCFG and spotted this minor issue in GrubConf.py > where the code intends to replace ${saved_entry} and ${next_entry} with 0 > but doesn't succeed. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> Irrespective of other issues, this is clearly a good bugfix. Committed. ~Andrew
diff --git a/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py b/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py index 594139bac7..73f1bbed2f 100644 --- a/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py +++ b/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ class Grub2ConfigFile(_GrubConfigFile): arg_strip = arg.strip() if arg_strip == "${saved_entry}" or arg_strip == "${next_entry}": logging.warning("grub2's saved_entry/next_entry not supported") - arg = "0" + arg_strip = "0" setattr(self, self.commands[com], arg_strip) else: logging.info("Ignored directive %s" %(com,))