https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=774558 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=774558#c0 Summary: The Grub2 File /etc/default/grub has incorrect File Permissions - Please change to chmod 747 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: RC 2 Platform: PC OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@suse.com ReportedBy: jmcdaniel3@austin.rr.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1 The Grub2 configuration file /etc/default/grub has the wrong file permissions to allow the request of help as a standard user for the command: /usr/sbin/grub2-install --help If you execute the command: sudo chmod 747 /etc/default/grub The help request will work properly for you. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open terminal as normal user 2. /usr/sbin/grub2-install --help 3. Actual Results: Help does not work due to permissions error Expected Results: james@linux-bfx1:~> /usr/sbin/grub2-install --help Usage: grub2-install [OPTION] [INSTALL_DEVICE] Install GRUB on your drive. -h, --help print this message and exit -v, --version print the version information and exit --modules=MODULES pre-load specified modules MODULES --boot-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub2 instead of the /boot/grub2 directory --target=TARGET install GRUB for TARGET platform [default=current] --directory=DIR use GRUB images from DIR. Takes precedence over target --grub-setup=FILE use FILE as grub-setup --grub-mkimage=FILE use FILE as grub-mkimage --grub-mkrelpath=FILE use FILE as grub-mkrelpath --grub-probe=FILE use FILE as grub-probe --allow-floppy make the drive also bootable as floppy (default for fdX devices). May break on some BIOSes. --recheck delete device map if it already exists --force install even if problems are detected --force-file-id use identifier file even if UUID is available --disk-module=MODULE disk module to use (biosdisk or native). This option is only available on BIOS target. --no-nvram don't update the `boot-device' NVRAM variable. This option is only available on IEEE1275 targets. --removable the installation device is removable. This option is only available on EFI. --bootloader-id=ID the ID of bootloader. This option is only available on EFI. --efi-directory=DIR use DIR as the EFI System Partition root. INSTALL_DEVICE must be system device filename. grub2-install copies GRUB images into /boot/grub2, and uses grub-setup to install grub into the boot sector. Use this command to fix the problem: sudo chmod 747 /etc/default/grub -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.