FS#6434 - KDE Reboot's select OS choice

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by João Rodrigues (gothicknight) - Friday, 16 February 2007, 14:00 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 16 February 2007, 14:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When the shutdown dialog in KDE appears, the reboot button has a dropdown menu that should be to select the grub entry to load after reboot. But this selection is not honored and GRUB loads the default one.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 06:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Urs Wolfer (uwolfer) - Friday, 16 February 2007, 15:11 GMT
Can confirm that behavior.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 16 February 2007, 18:45 GMT
hm really old issue, i haven't found any solution for it yet
Comment by Urs Wolfer (uwolfer) - Friday, 16 February 2007, 18:49 GMT
Just an idea: could it be that there should be some files in /boot writable by user?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 16 February 2007, 18:50 GMT
hrm could be, but i wouldn't allow it to the user by default ;)
Comment by João Rodrigues (gothicknight) - Saturday, 17 February 2007, 03:17 GMT
The propouse of the bug was to either remove or implement that... i think remove is the best choice, because /boot user rw support is rather scary }:>
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 19 February 2007, 22:23 GMT
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153544
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63800
Comment by João Rodrigues (gothicknight) - Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 17:44 GMT
Well... we need that patch build in the next revision of kdebase for GRUB support.

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