Ubuntu – After enabling hibernate grub menu appears on start-up with 30s timeout

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My system is not dual boot just single OS UBUNTU 16.04. Prior to making the following changes, the Grub screen would not appear at start-up (OK).

After following these steps from How can I hibernate on Ubuntu 16.04? to enable hibernate in the system menu:

  1. Open terminal and enter;

    sudo nano /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla
    
  2. add the lines into the empty file;

    [Re-enable hibernate by default in upower]
    Identity=unix-user:*
    Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
    ResultActive=yes
    
    [Re-enable hibernate by default in logind]
    Identity=unix-user:*
    Action=org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.handle-hibernate-key;org.freedesktop.login1;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-ignore-inhibit
    ResultActive=yes
    
  3. ^X then Y to save (a filename was suggested and I accepted without taking note).

  4. Reboot for the changes to take effect.

hibernate now works and appears in the menu (OK) but whenever I reboot I now get a Grub menu at start up with a full 30 second timeout (NOK). I tried playing around with the Grub menu timeout settings but still get the full 30 sec timeout.
How do I stop the Grub menu from appearing and reduce my boot time to what it was before I made these changes.

Current Grub settings;

GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT="0"
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET="true"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="1"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Best Answer

I had a 30s Timeout after hibernating, the undocumented setting GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT worked for me:

GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=$GRUB_TIMEOUT

See this Answer for more Details.