[Bug 1973432] Re: os-prober skip message is misleading

[Henning Sprang]

thanks for the quick response!

I dont understand what „MVP“ means  in that context - i know that
abbreviation as minimum viable product, but that doesn’t seem to fit -
could you explain what it means here?

not totally convinced with  saying it’s an “opinion” when there are in fact
two different and distinct lines where os-probing is skipped for different
reasons, but users get the same message, and one of these skips is not
dependent on the said config parameter but existence of a different string
in grub.cfg - but yeah maybe i do not yet understand the complexity enough…
-- 
Henning Sprang
http://www.sprang.de

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Title:
  os-prober skip message is misleading

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  os-prober appears not toe be executed when the string "osprober" is
  not found in /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

  While I am still on my way to understand what that means and if this
  is probably and error, because the string to search for should be "os-
  prober", one thing is clearly less than ideal:

  The information message tells the use to check the
  "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER" meaning in grub documentation.

  But the reason why ths steps is skipped in that code line, is because
  a greo command.

  The outout should tell the user so!

  (ubuntu-bug uploaded my slightly modified version that changes the
  behaviour, this description refers to the unmodified version!)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: grub-common 2.06-2ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-30.31-generic 5.15.30
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-30-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat May 14 22:08:19 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-12 (761 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-28 (15 days ago)
  mtime.conffile..etc.grub.d.30_os-prober: 2022-05-14T22:02:14.161083

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