Bug 139603 – KDM: Select grub menu entry on reboot fails

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gert Menke 2006-07-07 14:14:36 UTC]

When I select a grub menu entry from kdm's reboot button, kdm tries to open a grub shell and use the command "setdefault", which does not exist. Probably there is a distro that patches grub to have that option, but in gentoo that is not the case. I have made a patch so kdm uses "grub-set-default" instead, and submitted it on bugs.kde.org. Until it eventually makes its way into a KDE release, it is probably a good thing to add the patch to portage.
You can find it here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63800#c8

[Comment 1 Gert Menke 2006-07-07 14:16:03 UTC]

Created attachment 91166 [details, diff]
Patch for KDM to use grub-set-default

[Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-07-07 17:12:38 UTC]

Whoever takes a look at this, please take also 

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127045

into account. /me is lilo only, so...

[Comment 3 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-08-30 08:18:57 UTC]

I'll try to do something with this.

[Comment 4 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-08-30 08:30:13 UTC]

Note to self: both patches need to be applied to kde-base/kdebase and kde-base/kdm

[Comment 5 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-08-30 08:38:32 UTC]

It might be smart to add the following einfo:

   First, modify your configuration file. Here is an example:

     default saved        # This is important!!!
     timeout 10

     title the old kernel
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /old_kernel
     savedefault

     title the new kernel
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /new_kernel
     savedefault 0         # This is important!!!

[Comment 6 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-08-30 08:46:05 UTC]

I notice that the patches are in fact 3 and not 2. I'll add them to kde-base/kdm only for now. Once it gets tested enough we can move the patches to kde-base/kdebase.

[Comment 7 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-08-30 08:48:24 UTC]

My bad, the patches are 2 definitely. 

[Comment 8 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-08-30 09:10:29 UTC]

kde-base/kdm fixed in CVS

Proceeding with kde-base/kdebase

[Comment 9 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-08-30 09:54:23 UTC]

Patch for kde-base/kdebase will be added by carlo together with another patch set. Marking as fixed.

[Comment 10 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-09-08 04:19:14 UTC]

*** Bug 143051 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***