https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818441 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818441#c0 Summary: GRUB Menu: zypper up often wipes out custom grub.cfg changes, created by modifications to theme.txt Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@suse.com ReportedBy: tonysu@su-networking.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 whenever "zypper up" updates the components used to re-build grub.cfg, previous customizations are wiped out. Workaround: Script the changes so that they can be re-applied easily Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Although various changes can be made various ways, perhaps the easiest way is to use the script and replacement grub menu theme background I posted with this bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817866 1. Extract the package and run the script following the instructions in the script's first few lines, this will a. Modify the grub menu item width, font size, and progress bar b. Point to a different background image 2. Sometime, usually not longer than a week for me, a "zypper up" seems to re-apply the original theme.txt configuration (don't know where it's coming from) Actual Results: After theme.txt has been replace with the original from I don't know where, the original default configuration is used to re-build grub.cfg Expected Results: I don't know what in a "zypper up" might be re-applying a default theme.txt configuration, but ti's wiping out the changes entered into theme.txt IIRC it should also be possible to point to a different configuration file than theme.txt, so a possible workaround might be to implement that way instead of editing theme.txt but would have to be tested. Regardless, AFAIK, editing theme.txt directly is supposed to be a recognized and recommended way to alter the appearance of the GRUB2 menu. Possible solution? For each and every component used to re-build grub.cfg, IMO should remain untouched unless a re-install is requested. This is assuming there is even a good reason to re-build grub.cfg (I haven't looked closely at why "zypper up" might be doing this). Recommending "Normal" importance because this could be a significant problem for someone who simply edits theme.txt and does not use a script like what I provided for simple and quick re-implementation. -- 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.