outdated activity; closing it
http://www.iloveubuntu.net/may-9th-2013-sees-end-life-ubuntu-804-hardy-
heron-server-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx-desktop-and-ubuntu
** Changed in: ucf (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: ucf (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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You rece
Well, there will be a non-trivial number of users who have modified
their menu.lst boot stanzas by hand inconsistent with the magic
comments, causing the ucf prompt to trigger on installation of a new
kernel; and some of these users will choose the 'three-way merge'
option; and some of these three-
Steve, there's a lot of reports of this at the forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=948584
It seems like something's going on that trips a 3-way-merge failure in
update-grub on these configurations.
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ucf < 3.006 breaks update-grub in hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226708
Y
I cannot reproduce the problem myself right now. But I really had to use
the ucf 3.006 when I wanted to run update-grub on a brand new installed
Ubuntu 8.04.
Currently, I don't have the time to make a reinstall and try it out an
other time. But maybe somebody else experiences the same difficulties
The Problem is that update-grub exactly uses this three-way merging
option.
If you have a look at the update-grub script
grep -i three-way /usr/sbin/update-grub
should give you a hit.
apt-cache policy grub
Gives:
grub:
Installed: 0.97-29ubuntu21
Candidate: 0.97-29ubuntu21
Version table:
Added link to question
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/32022
I think this problem was also because of the bug in the three-way merge.
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ucf < 3.006 breaks update-grub in hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226708
You received this bug notification because you are a member of U
ucf 3.006 contains a single bugfix over ucf 3.005:
* Bug fix: "ucf: fails to catch conflicts on three-way merging", thanks
to Niko Tyni. Closes: #473473
So this only affects the behavior of ucf when using three-way merging,
which is not the default; and
