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

[Quirin Lohr]

Hey dino99,

the x is just part of an empty string comparison!

"x${GRUB_DEFAULT}" is compared to "x"

If ${GRUB_DEFAULT} is empty, it is "x" = "x"

Also, I think the "#"s from #35 is just padding because the grubenv file
has to keep a specific file size or at least minimum file size.

Since the problem only occurs if installed by an alternate installer (in
my case fai), my guess is that there is just a command in the
installation script missing, which is executed in the default installer.

Can anybody show a grubenv file resulting from a default installation?

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Title:
  [Grubenv] 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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