Bug#1013432: debian-cd: UEFI boot uses black text on dark blue background

[Roland Clobus]

Package: debian-cd
Version: 3.1.35
Severity: normal

Hello,

since grub version 2.06-3 entered sid, the UEFI menu of the daily netinst image
shows a black text on the dark blue background for the selected boot item.

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-
cd/
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

This can be seen e.g. at
https://openqa.debian.net/tests/61507#step/bootwalk_0/2

It appears that the grub theme is active now (which was not the case for e.g.
the netinst-11 images).

As a local hack, I've replaced:
selected_item_color = "black"
with
selected_item_color = "white"

in boot/grub/theme/1 inside my netinst image.

The original file that is used is:
https://sources.debian.org/src/debian-cd/3.1.35/data/bullseye/grub-
theme.in/?hl=58#L58

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages debian-cd depends on:
ii apt 2.5.0
ii bc 1.07.1-3+b1
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5
ii cpp 4:11.2.0-2
ii curl 7.83.1-2
ii dctrl-tools [grep-dctrl] 2.24-3+b1
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.8
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3.2
pn libcompress-zlib-perl <none>
pn libdigest-md5-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.8
ii libfile-slurp-perl 9999.32-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.83+ds-1+b1
ii lynx 2.9.0dev.10-1
ii make 4.3-4.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.34.0-4
ii tofrodos 1.7.13+ds-5
ii wget 1.21.3-1+b2
ii xorriso 1.5.4-2

Versions of packages debian-cd recommends:
ii dosfstools 4.2-1
ii hfsutils 3.2.6-15
ii isolinux 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
ii mtools 4.0.33-1+really4.0.32-1
ii syslinux-common 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3

debian-cd suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Roland!

Post by Roland Clobus
Package: debian-cd
Version: 3.1.35
Severity: normal
Hello,
since grub version 2.06-3 entered sid, the UEFI menu of the daily netinst image
shows a black text on the dark blue background for the selected boot item.
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-
cd/
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
This can be seen e.g. at
https://openqa.debian.net/tests/61507#step/bootwalk_0/2
It appears that the grub theme is active now (which was not the case for e.g.
the netinst-11 images).
selected_item_color = "black"
with
selected_item_color = "white"
in boot/grub/theme/1 inside my netinst image.

Aha! Thanks for reporting this, I'll take a look.

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