GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #35880, grub tries to load...
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bug #35880: grub tries to load $grubdir/locale/en.mo.gz
Submitter: | Mike GIlbert <floppym> | ||
Submitted: | Sat 17 Mar 2012 10:04:45 PM UTC | ||
Votes: | 85 | ||
Category: | Booting | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Software Error |
Status: | Fixed | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | Mike Gilbert |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | Bazaar - trunk |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
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Mon 04 Mar 2013 02:45:11 PM UTC, comment #12: |
Michael Shigorin <gvy> |
Thu 06 Sep 2012 10:53:05 AM UTC, comment #11: Vladimir, I think that this is a kind of odd position to take, honestly. Userspace gettext falls back silently to untranslated text if translations are unavailable. I don't see why boot loader translations are so much more important than userspace translations that they require printing an error message; furthermore, surely in cases of doubt similarly-named parts of the GNU system should behave similarly, and therefore GRUB gettext should adopt the behaviour of GNU libc gettext here. |
Colin Watson <cjwatson> |
Thu 10 May 2012 09:49:11 AM UTC, comment #10: IMO the problem is not so much what it try to load but the error message when a locale setting without translation is used.
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Mads Kiilerich <kiilerix> |
Mon 19 Mar 2012 04:09:16 PM UTC, comment #9: True.
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Mike GIlbert <floppym> |
Mon 19 Mar 2012 04:05:15 PM UTC, comment #8: The problem here basically is that user requests specifically en_US and not C/POSIX and neither en_US nor en is available.
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Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Mon 19 Mar 2012 04:00:02 PM UTC, comment #7: Right, so your point is that other applications have English translations. Is such a thing in the works for GRUB?
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Mike GIlbert <floppym> |
Mon 19 Mar 2012 03:44:47 PM UTC, comment #6:
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Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Sat 17 Mar 2012 11:54:08 PM UTC, comment #5: I think the main issue is that the error is misreported; it should tell the user that the en_US dialect is missing, rather than complaining about a base en translation that will never exist. |
Mike GIlbert <floppym> |
Sat 17 Mar 2012 11:23:54 PM UTC, comment #4: Yes, but English is a bit of a special case; the messages are already written in English.
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Mike GIlbert <floppym> |
Sat 17 Mar 2012 11:19:27 PM UTC, comment #3: It's not created because there is no en.po. But the same holds also for e.g. es.po (Spanish) but we need to give a reason why GRUB isn't in locale language despite being configured for it. |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Sat 17 Mar 2012 11:11:47 PM UTC, comment #2: As far as I can tell, en.mo.gz is never created, so attempting to load it will never succeed. |
Mike GIlbert <floppym> |
Sat 17 Mar 2012 10:12:27 PM UTC, comment #1: This is not a bug. "en" locale may also need some translation like handling proper quoting, see en@quot. So not loading it wouldn't be correct. |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Sat 17 Mar 2012 10:04:45 PM UTC, original submission:
Grub tries to load an English translation if grub-mkconfig is run with an English locale (LANG=en_US.UTF-8).
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Mike GIlbert <floppym> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2013-11-03 | phcoder | Status | None | Fixed | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
2013-03-04 | gvy | Attached File | - | Added grub2-fix-locale-en.mo.gz-not-found-error-message.patch, #27564 | |
2013-01-06 | wfmakowski | Carbon-Copy | - | Added wfmakowski | |
2012-12-29 | thewilbur | Carbon-Copy | - | Added thewilbur | |
2012-12-08 | _78879 | Carbon-Copy | - | Added -email is unavailable- | |
2012-09-06 | cjwatson | Attached File | - | Added gettext_quiet.patch, #26488 | |
2012-04-03 | ridikulus_rat | Carbon-Copy | - | Added ridikulus_rat |
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Corresponding source code
For the record, this silly complaint is patched out the very same way at least openSUSE and ALT Linux.
(file #27564)