[Bug 1311247] Re: error: malformed file, press any key to continue

[dino99]

Thanks coolinger for the finding.

Glancing at my Utopic /boot/grub/grubenv, i see it writen on each boot.
The latest is like:

# GRUB Environment Block
###################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################

All these #### seems insane. Note that my system is running only linux OS: ubuntu & debian, so no windows around and no empty ntfs partition.
So if that file is re-writen every cold boot, setting ubuntu as default may not work many times i suppose. Googling around "ubuntu grubenv" give lot of threads.

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Title:
  error: malformed file, press any key to continue

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have just upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04

  Since the upgrade, when I boot up, the process stops and the normal
  grub screen is replaced after a short while by a message saying

  "error: malformed file, press any key to continue"

  Pressing a key allows booting to continue.

  Someone else who experienced this found that the problem went away
  after having re-installed grub.  I tried this but this did not resolve
  the problem for me.

  synaptic reports the grub package as 2.02~beta2-9

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