Bug 22182

Summary:	grub.mo dangling link
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Bit Twister <bittwister2>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Barry Jackson <zen25000>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, pkg-bugs
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	grub2-2.02.0-2.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Bit Twister 2017-12-12 14:11:00 CET

Description of problem:mga7 dev0

dangling link: 
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo -> ../../../../../usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo 



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. clean mga6+updates.
2. change media to cauldron
3. install updates.

Comment 1 Bit Twister 2017-12-12 14:12:24 CET

(In reply to Bit Twister from comment #0)
> Description of problem:mga7 dev0
> 
> dangling link: 
> /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo ->
> ../../../../../usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo 
> 
> 
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 
> 
> How reproducible:
> 
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. clean mga6+updates.
> 2. change media to cauldron

3. apply all updates, then run
4. symlinks -r / | grep dangling

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2017-12-13 06:23:19 CET

Assigning to the not-registered maintainer.

CC'ing all packagers collectively, since there is no registered maintainer for this package.

CC: (none) => marja11, pkg-bugs
Assignee: bugsquad => zen25000

Comment 3 Barry Jackson 2017-12-13 16:55:27 CET

I am struggling to understand what is happening here.

The link target usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo IS in the grub2-common package, but seems not to be installed with no error. It was OK in Mga6.

The symlink is/was needed as a workaround for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817187 from 2012.

What is more disturbing is that grub2-install is not writing anything to /boot/grub2/locale. Maybe it does for other than en - can anyone check in Cauldron?

Comment 4 Barry Jackson 2017-12-13 21:30:23 CET

OK I fixed it.

It looks like a change/bug in rpm that will not handle the symlink - I have copied the file pre-install instead and it now works OK.

The missing /boot/grub/locale/en.mo is now installed correctly.

Well spotted Bit_Twister :)

Please test when grub2-2.02.0-2 hits the mirrors.

Comment 5 Barry Jackson 2017-12-14 00:03:37 CET

Make that grub2-2.02.0-3

Closing.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED