On 11 Jun 2023 at 16:24, George N. White III wrote:

From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>

Date sent: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:24:45 -0300

Subject: Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>

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>

> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 9:54 PM Stephen Morris <samorris@netspace.net.au>

> wrote:

> Hi,

>  I have just used dnf to put on the currently available

> maintenance in F38, having not put any on for a week or so,

> after upgrading from F37 via dnf system-upgrade a couple

> of weeks ago.

>  After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig

> to build the grub.cfg file and got the message below after it

> notified of finding the linux kernels, does anyone know what

> this means and why they are being produced from the

> released version of grub2-mkconfig, the process I ran after

> the maintenance I put on a week or so ago did not produce

> these messages?

>

> fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F

>

> /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig --help

> [...]

> Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

>

> I haven't seen this warning since before COVID. There are lots of grub2-X

> scripts, it would be useful to identify the culprit.

> Maybe replace the current fgrep script with one that prints more details.

Did a quick check on my system with Fedora 37.

In /etc/grub.d

for a in *; do echo $a; grep "fgrep" <$a; done

00_header

01_users

08_fallback_counting

10_linux

  list=`echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | fgrep -vx "$linux" | tr '\n' ' '`

10_reset_boot_success

12_menu_auto_hide

14_menu_show_once

20_linux_xen

 list=`echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | fgrep -vx "$linux" | tr '\n' ' '`

    xen_list=`echo $xen_list | tr ' ' '\n' | fgrep -vx "$current_xen" | tr '\n' ' '`

20_memtest86+

20_ppc_terminfo

30_os-prober

30_uefi-firmware

35_fwupd

40_custom

41_custom

>

> --

> George N. White III

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