Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Systemsettings -> Advanced -> Login Manager -> Shutdown Configuring Grub as the boot loader does not bring up the Grub options on restart in KDE 4.3. Tested on Kubuntu and OpenSuse.
are you using grub2 by any chance?
No, no grub2 on the Kubuntu install. I do not have the OpenSUse install to check, but I do not think that it was grub2 either.
To my knowledge, this has never worked. I looked at the code and it is simply wrong. The code launched "grub --batch --no-floppy" and executes the grub command "savedefault --default=$N --once" where $N is the OS index it determined earlier. Doing this in the console simply leads to "Error 27: Unrecognized command". The correct way is to simply run "/sbin/grub-set-default $N". Whoever wrote this code clearly didn't test it at all.
Even worse, the code gets the value of the "default" option and converts it to an integer - however, setting the default for the next boot only works if the option is "default saved", and "saved" will clearly fail on atoi(). Failure should be returned if this is anything other than "saved". If it is set to "saved", the default can be read from /boot/grub/default.
At least it works fine in KDE-3 on OpenSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 (and older). I believe it is really changing "default" to specified index for one reboot (by adding file "default" into grub directory).
Last time I used KDE on SuSE, it was heavily patched, so I wouldn't take SuSE as an example for how good features in kde work or don't work.
thomas' comments are clearly meant for (fixed) bug 63800. however, that does not explain why the options do not "come up" at all. please be more specific. is the shutdown button no menu button? or does it have no choices in it? are you talking about the shutdown dialog in kdm or the logout dialog of kde?
Crap, I should learn.to/read, sorry.
@Oswald: I don't remember what I was triaging, sorry. It was another user's issue and he is unavailable at the moment. In Systemsettings -> Advanced -> Login Manager -> Shutdown I have set Grub as the boot manager. What sort of KDE integration should I expect?
Dotan, It was not my report, I am not using 4.3 yet, but in KDE3 when you chose the GRUB as boot manager, KDE adds all GRUB options to "restart" button in "logout" dialog box. That is, "restart" button has drop-down box. If you press small triangle, you receive the list of possible boot options (different OSs you defined in GRUB) and you can chose right here what system do you want to boot. I use it quite often. I know that in some previous version of OpenSUSE there was a problem that GRUB has not been automatically substituted as boot manager and then no restart options existed. As soon as I've chosen GRUB, the restart options re-appeared.
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