Ubuntu – Grub Customizer Theme Error – Can’t Find “theme.txt”

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What I've Done:

  • Fresh Install of Ubuntu 14.04
  • Installed BURG on all 4 of my hard drives (plus hd0)
  • Seems to work fine
  • Install GRUB Customizer and run as root in BURG Mode

Then I get this error:

 *** initializing (w/o specified bootloader type)…
   * reading partition info…
   * Loading Framebuffer resolutions (background process)
   * Finding out if this is a live CD
sh: 1: hwinfo: not found
 *** initializing (w/ specified bootloader type)…
   * Checking if the config directory is clean
 *** loading configuration
 *** loading - preserveConfig: no
   * unsetting saved config
 *** loading settings
 *** loading grub list
   * loading scripts…
   * loading proxies…
   * cleaning up proxy configuration…
   * creating proxifiedScript links & chmodding other files…
   * running burg-mkconfig
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
   * restoring grub configuration
   * removing invalid proxies from list
   * loading completed
 *** grub list completely loaded
 *** loading saved grub list
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68
     exception '28InvalidStringFormatException'
 with message 'theme index file path must contain '/boot/burg/themes' given path: 'saved''
 in /build/buildd/grub-customizer-4.0.6/src/Model/ThemeManager.cpp:68

When I try switching to any theme it says it can't find "theme.txt".

ALL of my themes seem to contain /boot/burg/themes path though.

"/boot/burg/themes/sora/theme" exists. But why "theme" not "theme.txt"?

Renaming doesn't help.

Any solution is much appreciated!

Best Answer

Alternatively to the simple theme method which provides some options like color, wallpaper and font you can install complex theme packages to get an even better looking boot menu.

There are several download sources like this thread at http://ubuntuforums.org (needs account) or search for 'grub' at http://gnome-look.org

Just download such a package (which is in tar.gz format in most cases) and add it to the list of available themes by using the add button next to the theme chooser.

After changing the theme you'll see a simple editor which gives a preview of images and allows some file management. Modified theme contents will be saved when you're pressing the save button.

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