GNU bug report logs - #19160
GRUB background image not protected from GC

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: GRUB background image not protected from GC
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:04:07 +0100

GRUB’s background image is not protected from GC.  So it may be GC’d, in
which case GRUB falls back to text mode.

‘grub.cfg’ is not part of the ‘system’ derivation, so it needs to be
made a GC root somehow.  Possibly by passing it on the kernel command
line.

Ludo’.
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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 19160-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19160: GRUB background image not protected from GC
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:54:00 +0100

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> GRUB’s background image is not protected from GC.  So it may be GC’d, in
> which case GRUB falls back to text mode.

Fixed in 39d1f82.

Ludo’.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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