Grubby templates [was Somebody hosed grub.conf]

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 18:47:56 +0000
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anywho it most likely was caused by a post-install script failure.

I watched closely as today's kernel update came through:

>   Installing : kernel-2.6.39-0.rc7.git3.0.fc16.x86_64                       19/37 
> grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template

Some digging suggests that this is not an uncommon failure mode for
grubby... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=124246 dates back to
2004.  

The man page is rather unhelpful on the subject of templates.  I've tried
restoring older kernel entries to grub.conf from a backup, but that hasn't
helped a whole lot.

Anything else I can look at?

Thanks,

jon