Grub Customizer

Grub Fails to update, boot manager does not show latest version of Linux

Bug #1316803 reported by john balls
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failed running 'grub-mkconfig -o "/boot/grub/grub.cfg"' output:
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-39-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-39-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-38-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-38-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-37-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-37-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-36-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-36-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-35-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-35-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-34-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-34-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-29-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-29-generic
Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda4
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-39-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-39-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-38-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-38-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-37-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-37-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-36-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-36-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-35-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-35-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-34-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-34-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-29-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-29-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda4
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.

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john balls (johngavinballs) wrote :

grub.cfg.new

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john balls (johngavinballs) wrote :

Here is the complete comment from update-grub run in terminal

Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-39-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-39-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-38-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-38-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-37-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-37-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-36-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-36-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-35-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-35-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-34-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-34-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-29-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-29-generic
Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda4
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-39-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-39-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-38-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-38-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-37-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-37-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-36-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-36-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-35-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-35-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-34-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-34-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-29-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-29-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda4
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
error: line no: 161
Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file.
Ensure that there are no errors in /etc/default/grub
and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with
/boot/grub/grub.cfg.new file attached.
done

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