847743 – Outdated GRUB 2 entry name after upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1

Bug 847743 - Outdated GRUB 2 entry name after upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1

Summary: Outdated GRUB 2 entry name after upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 956660
Duplicates (1):	848801 (view as bug list)

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 13.1
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Bootloader (show other bugs)
Version:	RC 1
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
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Assignee:	Michael Chang
QA Contact:	Jiri Srain

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Reported:	2013-10-25 21:44 UTC by Javier Llorente
Modified:	2018-02-21 22:58 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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y2logs (2.29 MB, application/x-compressed-tar) 2013-10-25 21:44 UTC, Javier Llorente	Details
GRUB config file (8.24 KB, application/octet-stream) 2013-10-25 21:46 UTC, Javier Llorente	Details
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Description Javier Llorente 2013-10-25 21:44:42 UTC

Created attachment 565094 [details]
y2logs

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

I have just upgraded my laptop from 12.3 to 13.1 RC1 using a pen drive (DVD image). After the upgrade, the GRUB 2 entry remains the same ("openSUSE 12.3") instead of being updated to "openSUSE 13.1"
JFYI, I can boot fine into 13.1 RC1 and I'm not dual-booting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1 RC1
2. Check GRUB 2 menu entry

Actual Results:  
GRUB 2 menu entries are out-dated (openSUSE 12.3)

Expected Results:  
GRUB 2 menu entries should be updated (openSUSE 13.1)

Comment 1 Javier Llorente 2013-10-25 21:46:18 UTC

Created attachment 565095 [details]
GRUB config file

Comment 2 Javier Llorente 2013-10-25 21:47:58 UTC

Note: I haven't tried to reproduce it. If this happens to you as well, please confirm it. Thanks!

Comment 3 Michael Chang 2013-11-05 08:30:52 UTC

Hi Javier,

This is known problem, please follow this ML discussion to set a new version.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.devel/53785

The reason why it's not updated is because that's user editable thus we won't touch in case overwriting it which could be arbitrary strings .

Comment 4 Javier Llorente 2013-11-05 17:02:26 UTC

Thanks for telling, Chang.

I see your point. It's user editable. However, I think we could solve it by using a script to check if it has been modified by the user or not (ie: the entry is openSUSE 12.3) to update it (ie: to openSUSE 13.1).

Comment 5 Jon Nelson 2014-04-14 21:05:46 UTC

Agree with comment #4.

Comment 6 Lewis Rosenthal 2015-01-17 21:59:48 UTC

Much as I hate "chiming in" with "me, too," in bug reports, as there is no voting system enabled here, I would add my support for Javier's comment #4. I just bumped from 13.1 to 13.2, and was somewhat taken aback when my boot menu still said 13.1 (was my upgrade broken?). As an engineer, I'm not really rattled by such things, and I was aware that my zypper dup all looked fine (and I do know how to manually edit /etc/default/grub). Still, it seemed oddly un-polished for this to be left undone.

Comment 7 Michael Chang 2015-12-28 10:37:40 UTC

We are now handling this on bsc#956660.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 956660 ***

Comment 8 Karl Cheng 2018-02-21 22:58:55 UTC

*** Bug 848801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***