Bug 19468

Version-Release number of selected component:
Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso

Also this bug present in Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-x86_64.iso

What is the output of:
rpm -qa|grep -E "grub2|mageia-theme"

(In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #3)
> What is the output of:
> rpm -qa|grep -E "grub2|mageia-theme"

Answer:
sh: rpm: command not found

This I expected, since we are talking about the bootable iso for network installation Mageia6, and not the full system

(In reply to Alexey Nedobezhkin from comment #4)
> (In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #3)
> > What is the output of:
> > rpm -qa|grep -E "grub2|mageia-theme"
> 
> Answer:
> sh: rpm: command not found
> 
> This I expected, since we are talking about the bootable iso for network
> installation Mageia6, and not the full system

Well yes, so would I ;)

I meant from within the running new installation.

However I suspect that your net-install was using a bad mirror, as with current cauldron I cannot reproduce this.

You could do a net-install upgrade of it using a different good mirror.
see: https://mirrors.mageia.org/status

Visited several mirrors, all the disk image is dated 18-Sep-2016. You just run the disc in EFIx64?

Link to my image http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/install/images/Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-x86_64.iso

Share the link to your image, I'll check with Your way

(In reply to Alexey Nedobezhkin from comment #7)
> Visited several mirrors, all the disk image is dated 18-Sep-2016. You just
> run the disc in EFIx64?
> 
> Link to my image
> http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/install/
> images/Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-x86_64.iso
> 
> Share the link to your image, I'll check with Your way.

That is the same image I used to test, but it's the mirror that you use to do the net-install that may have been out of date.

When you get to the mirror step, don't use the default "Install Mageia 6 Cauldron" option as that will use $MIRRORLIST but select to use a custom http mirror and type it in manually.
Try:
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/

Alexey is right!
grub.cfg and the theme declare the wrong image name.

Barry: Alexey doesn't talk about the stage 2 installation. He's got the latest netinstall iso from the mirrors (18.09.2016).

It's about the very first grub2 boot screen that is configured on the iso.
The result of the misconfig is: the missing background image. Background is simply black.

CC: (none) => shybluenight

Thank you! I with my poor knowledge of English was difficult to convey that message.

(In reply to Chris B from comment #9)
> Alexey is right!
> grub.cfg and the theme declare the wrong image name.
> 
> Barry: Alexey doesn't talk about the stage 2 installation. He's got the
> latest netinstall iso from the mirrors (18.09.2016).
> 
> It's about the very first grub2 boot screen that is configured on the iso.
> The result of the misconfig is: the missing background image. Background is
> simply black.

Thanks Chris,

I may have used a slightly older image and so did not see this when I tested in VM.

This looks like a problem in the .iso generation, so I will re-assign back to bug squad.

Assignee: zen25000 => bugsquad
Severity: minor => normal

The iso contains two copies of the correct image but the theme.txt is looking for "Mageia5-grub2-1024x768.png".

1 It needs /EFI/BOOT/themes/grub2-mageia-default.png removing as it is duplicated at /home/baz/BUGS/EFI/BOOT/themes/maggy/grub2-mageia-default.png (which is normally a symlink to the first in a Mageia instalation).

2. It needs /EFI/BOOT/themes/maggy/theme.txt editing to look for "grub2-mageia-default.png" at line 7

CC: (none) => zen25000

commit 99f72d1fbd43327d0295bf75de9ecc241887f235
Author: Thomas Backlund <tmb@...>
Date:   Tue Sep 27 18:59:53 2016 +0300

    fix background theme image name (mga#19468)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=99f72d1fbd43327d0295bf75de9ecc241887f235

Also in /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg declared:
if loadfont ${prefix}/fonts/unicode.pf2
But file unicode.pf2 not present in /EFI/BOOT/fonts

Yes - well spotted - this was in the previous iso.

(In reply to Mageia Robot from comment #13)
> commit 99f72d1fbd43327d0295bf75de9ecc241887f235
> Author: Thomas Backlund <tmb@...>
> Date:   Tue Sep 27 18:59:53 2016 +0300
> 
>     fix background theme image name (mga#19468)
> ---
>  Commit Link:
>   
> http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/
> ?id=99f72d1fbd43327d0295bf75de9ecc241887f235

(In reply to Alexey Nedobezhkin from comment #14)
> Also in /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg declared:
> if loadfont ${prefix}/fonts/unicode.pf2
> But file unicode.pf2 not present in /EFI/BOOT/fonts

(In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #15)
> Yes - well spotted - this was in the previous iso.

So closing as FIXED.

Please reopen if needed

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #16)

> 
> So closing as FIXED.
> 
> Please reopen if needed

Re-opening as I think this was only partly fixed.

If unicode.pf2 is not present in /EFI/BOOT/fonts in the next iso then it too will load in only text mode.

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED => (none)

(In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #17)

> 
> Re-opening as I think this was only partly fixed.
> 
> If unicode.pf2 is not present in /EFI/BOOT/fonts in the next iso then it too
> will load in only text mode.

Assigning to the isobuilders, then :-)

Assignee: bugsquad => isobuild

Is this bug still valid for 6sta2?

Keywords: (none) => 6sta1, NEEDINFO
Summary: [6sta1 netinstall] Error in maggy theme file for GRUB2 netinstall => netinstall] Error in maggy theme file for GRUB2 netinstall

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #19)
> Is this bug still valid for 6sta2?

yes.

there are also 2 x "grub2-mageia-default.png"
#1 is in EFI/BOOT/themes
#2 is in EFI/BOOT/themes/maggy

CC: (none) => westel

This bug is only about the netinstall isos.
This bug is only about starting the iso in uefi mode.

Fixed: the naming of the images. Though they are added in two directories, as pointed out by Ben.
Not fixed: unicode.pf2 is not present in /EFI/BOOT/fonts, as pointed out by Barry

Result: starts in text mode only.

(In reply to Chris B from comment #21)
> This bug is only about the netinstall isos.
> This bug is only about starting the iso in uefi mode.
> 
> Fixed: the naming of the images. Though they are added in two directories,
> as pointed out by Ben.

In an installed system one is a link to the other, for the netinstall iso the real file is only needed in the maggy directory. The one in themes can be removed.

> Not fixed: unicode.pf2 is not present in /EFI/BOOT/fonts, as pointed out by
> Barry
> 
> Result: starts in text mode only.

still valid, 

changing to release blocker

Priority: Normal => release_blocker

Thomas, any pointer on how the netinstall ISOs are built? I'd like to investigate and fix this config issue, but I'm not sure what package/software is responsible for generating those ISOs.

CC: (none) => tmb

See images/ subdir in drakx's git & drakx-installer-images/SPECS/drakx-installer-images.spec in SVN

Thanks Thierry.

The font loading is defined here: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/images/grub2.config#n8

The fonts folder from /boot/grub2 is supposed to be copied over here: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/images/make_boot_img#n358

But the required font seems not to be shipped as /boot/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2 in grub2-common: http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/775328a37f4d1ffba0df2766b66437bf/files
Instead it's in /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2

So either make_boot_img should be fixed to copy it from /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2, or grub2 should be fixed to ship its font in the fonts folder.

@ Barry, Thierry, what's the best solution?

Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-images-2.43-16.mga6
Status comment: (none) => drakx-installer-images relies on /boot/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2, but it's actually shipped as /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 in grub2-common

(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #26)
> Thanks Thierry.
> 
> The font loading is defined here:
> http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/images/grub2.config#n8
> 
> The fonts folder from /boot/grub2 is supposed to be copied over here:
> http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/images/make_boot_img#n358
> 
> But the required font seems not to be shipped as
> /boot/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2 in grub2-common:
> http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/775328a37f4d1ffba0df2766b66437bf/files
> Instead it's in /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2
> 
> So either make_boot_img should be fixed to copy it from
> /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2, or grub2 should be fixed to ship its font in
> the fonts folder.
> 
> @ Barry, Thierry, what's the best solution?

It is correct in the grub2 package - grub2-install expects it at /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 and copies it to the fonts folder itself as required.

So, make_boot_img should be fixed to copy it for the iso.

So basically adding `_ "cp -f /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 .boot_iso/EFI/BOOT/fonts/";` after http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/images/make_boot_img#n358 should do the trick. I can commit that later on if there's no objection.

commit 98745313cf51ccec856788ba768f67587fd1701c
Author: Thomas Backlund <tmb@...>
Date:   Wed Apr 26 21:49:36 2017 +0300

    add missing unicode.pf2 in /EFI/BOOT/fonts/ (mga#19468)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=98745313cf51ccec856788ba768f67587fd1701c

Thanks Thomas! Should now be fixed with drakx-installer-images-2.44-1.mga6.

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED