grub.cfg gets saved as grub.cfg.new so is not ACTIVE

Grub Customizer doesn't write the grub.cfg directly. After you've clicked the save button, your changes will be written to the /etc/default/grub and /etc/grub.d - and then, Grub Customizer simply runs update-grub which generates this file finally. This command may be broken on your system.

Please run `sudo update-grub` using a terminal and tell me its output.

hi Daniel

here is the output of update-grub

Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-11-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
error: line no: 116
Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file.
Ensure that there are no errors in /etc/default/grub
and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with
/boot/grub/grub.cfg.new file attached.
done

here is an extract from the grub.cfg.new

======================
103: menuentry "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-11-generic (recovery mode)"
--class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root fb7fc5a4-e1a2-4d0c-ad6a-70c93546779d
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.38-11-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic
root=UUID=fb7fc5a4-e1a2-4d0c-ad6a-70c93546779d ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-11-generic
}
submenu "Previous Linux versions"{
116: }
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux_proxy ###

============================

I have manually added the line numbers. There does not appear to be any
error here. So I have attached the entire files both the .cfg and .cfg.new
and /etc/default/grub

thanks for your time

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> Your question #175491 on Grub Customizer changed:
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>
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> Daniel Richter requested more information:
> Grub Customizer doesn't write the grub.cfg directly. After you've
> clicked the save button, your changes will be written to the
> /etc/default/grub and /etc/grub.d - and then, Grub Customizer simply
> runs update-grub which generates this file finally. This command may be
> broken on your system.
>
> Please run `sudo update-grub` using a terminal and tell me its output.
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ah ok, I see it.

Grub doesn't allow empty submenus, but the Grub Customizer Proxy writes them anyway. I'll fix this.

This is what you can do, until I release the fix: use Grub Customizer to disable the whole submenu ("Previous Linux versions"), instead of its contents only.