Dear Tumbleweed users,
Last weekend i updated my Tumbleweed system (as i do almost every day using zypper dup).
On the next reboot i discovered that the new GRUB2-theme which i had designed just the week before was gone and had been replaced by the standard openSUSE-theme.
I ran rpmconfigcheck which showed nothing related to GRUB. So i checked /etc/default and found that there was a file grub.old and in /etc/default/grub the reference to my private GRUB2-theme had been replaced by a reference to the openSUSE-theme.
I undid that change, ran grub2-mkconfig and restarted my system. Still my GRUB2-theme did not show up.
A look in /boot/grub2/themes revealed that my GRUB2-theme was gone (deleted!).
Checking bugzilla i found this:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191251
However up to now nobody cared about this bugreport so i decided to place this message here as a warning to all of you.
Regards
Hagen
Op vrijdag 8 oktober 2021 13:34:29 CEST schreef Hagen Buliwyf:
Dear Tumbleweed users,
Last weekend i updated my Tumbleweed system (as i do almost every day using zypper dup).
On the next reboot i discovered that the new GRUB2-theme which i had designed just the week before was gone and had been replaced by the standard openSUSE-theme.
I ran rpmconfigcheck which showed nothing related to GRUB. So i checked /etc/default and found that there was a file grub.old and in /etc/default/grub the reference to my private GRUB2-theme had been replaced by a reference to the openSUSE-theme.
I undid that change, ran grub2-mkconfig and restarted my system. Still my GRUB2-theme did not show up.
A look in /boot/grub2/themes revealed that my GRUB2-theme was gone (deleted!).
Checking bugzilla i found this:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191251
However up to now nobody cared about this bugreport so i decided to place this message here as a warning to all of you.
Regards
Hagen
I suspect the culprit is in this .spec file. https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/branding-openSUSE/ branding-openSUSE.spec?expand=1
08.10.21 14:55 - Freek de Kruijf:
Op vrijdag 8 oktober 2021 13:34:29 CEST schreef Hagen Buliwyf:
Dear Tumbleweed users,
Last weekend i updated my Tumbleweed system (as i do almost every day using zypper dup).
On the next reboot i discovered that the new GRUB2-theme which i had designed just the week before was gone and had been replaced by the standard openSUSE-theme.
I ran rpmconfigcheck which showed nothing related to GRUB. So i checked /etc/default and found that there was a file grub.old and in /etc/default/grub the reference to my private GRUB2-theme had been replaced by a reference to the openSUSE-theme.
I undid that change, ran grub2-mkconfig and restarted my system. Still my GRUB2-theme did not show up.
A look in /boot/grub2/themes revealed that my GRUB2-theme was gone (deleted!).
Checking bugzilla i found this:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191251
However up to now nobody cared about this bugreport so i decided to place this message here as a warning to all of you.
Regards
Hagen
I suspect the culprit is in this .spec file. https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/branding-openSUSE/ branding-openSUSE.spec?expand=1
Thanks for the hint. But i'm not familiar with OBS at all.
Regards
Hagen
On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 01:34:29PM +0200, Hagen Buliwyf wrote:
Dear Tumbleweed users,
Last weekend i updated my Tumbleweed system (as i do almost every day using zypper dup).
On the next reboot i discovered that the new GRUB2-theme which i had designed just the week before was gone and had been replaced by the standard openSUSE-theme.
I ran rpmconfigcheck which showed nothing related to GRUB. So i checked /etc/default and found that there was a file grub.old and in /etc/default/grub the reference to my private GRUB2-theme had been replaced by a reference to the openSUSE-theme.
I undid that change, ran grub2-mkconfig and restarted my system. Still my GRUB2-theme did not show up.
A look in /boot/grub2/themes revealed that my GRUB2-theme was gone (deleted!).
Checking bugzilla i found this:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191251
However up to now nobody cared about this bugreport so i decided to place this message here as a warning to all of you.
Regards
Hagen
It seems that /usr/share/grub2/themes/openSUSE/activate-theme is responsible.
On 2021-10-08 11:15 a.m., Roger Whittaker wrote:
I love your song! ;-)
On 08.10.2021 18:15, Roger Whittaker wrote:
On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 01:34:29PM +0200, Hagen Buliwyf wrote:
Dear Tumbleweed users,
Last weekend i updated my Tumbleweed system (as i do almost every day using zypper dup).
On the next reboot i discovered that the new GRUB2-theme which i had designed just the week before was gone and had been replaced by the standard openSUSE-theme.
I ran rpmconfigcheck which showed nothing related to GRUB. So i checked /etc/default and found that there was a file grub.old and in /etc/default/grub the reference to my private GRUB2-theme had been replaced by a reference to the openSUSE-theme.
I undid that change, ran grub2-mkconfig and restarted my system. Still my GRUB2-theme did not show up.
A look in /boot/grub2/themes revealed that my GRUB2-theme was gone (deleted!).
Checking bugzilla i found this:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191251
However up to now nobody cared about this bugreport so i decided to place this message here as a warning to all of you.
Regards
Hagen
It seems that /usr/share/grub2/themes/openSUSE/activate-theme is responsible.
Yes. It should not remove the whole /boot/grub2/themes, but just /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE. More precise
system "rm -rf $grub2_theme_dir/$theme";
As for replacing current theme - well, this script is called "activate-theme" and it does exactly that. Package postinstall should probably check on update what theme is currently configured. This may need additional flag to activate-theme script to distinguish between "update files" and "update files and activate".
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