Missing File After Fedora 17 Clean Install (`/boot/grub2/locale/en.mo.gz' not found)

[RX3R0]

I'm a relative Linux and Fedora newbie looking for help. (Hopefully I posted this in the right sub forum.)

A few days ago I upgraded from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 via the DVD using the clean install method. The installation ran perfectly fine. Fedora 17 itself runs beautifully. I'm dual booting with Windows 7 and it also runs perfectly fine.

The problem is when grub2 is loading. On screen it shows:

GRUB loading ...
Welcome to GRUB

error: file `/boot/grub2/locale/en.mo.gz' not found

The error message only shows for a split second before screen goes blank and the monitor displays "Input Not Supported". (The monitor is a 17" Acer v173.) At this point, if I leave it alone and do nothing, Fedora 17 boots (the boot screen does show during boot up), and all goes well from there. If I hit the down arrow key a few times and then hit Enter, it boots to Windows 7. After booting into Fedora 17, I went to directory where this file should reside, and sure enough, it is missing.

As far as I can tell, grub2 is functioning fine even though this file is missing.

Is there any way to install this missing file and fix the error? Is there any other way of resolving this problem?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

[nonamedotc]

It is known bug. Take a look at this bug report.

[RX3R0]

I went over this bug report and some of the links in it a few times. As far as I can tell, it has been assigned, though not yet resolved.

A few solutions were proposed in the comments, but none seem to be definite fixes (unless there is something I missed).

Thank you for this information. I hope a definite fix comes soon.

[nonamedotc]

The status of the bug is "ASSIGNED". So, yes, hopefully, it will be fixed soon. I posted the link just for information

[verifier]

cp /boot/grub2/locale/uk.mo /boot/grub2/locale/en.mo
no error message again

[techabyte]

Just to update this post in case others look back here found this on the Bug report page in the comments

(In reply to comment #28)
> Also note that I found that
>
> cp /boot/grub2/locale/en@quot.mo /boot/grub2/locale/en.mo
>
> is a more practical choice, as uk.mo is not english.

That is correct - uk.mo is ukrainian, so you get Cyrillic text in ukrainian language on boot.

Please use the solution from Comment #28.

[Xavior]

What a mess they are making with gnome and grub, taking away customization which is the major reason people move to Linux is taking away the feeling of ownership... or at least they are making it much harder to tweak which drives even long time Linux lovers away.... : (

Just my 2 cents

[DBelton]

Originally Posted by Xavior

What a mess they are making with gnome and grub, taking away customization which is the major reason people move to Linux is taking away the feeling of ownership... or at least they are making it much harder to tweak which drives even long time Linux lovers away.... : (

Just my 2 cents

Actually, grub2 is much more configurable than legacy grub was, and works on more systems and newer hardware.

Legacy grub was becoming obsolete since it was no longer being maintained upstream. Fedora patched it to keep it going for their use, but it was fast becoming unpatchable.

Now I will be the first to tell you that the new feature and hardware support comes at a price. Grub2 is a little larger than legacy grub was. Some of it is pure bloat, some isn't, but then again, it's next to impossible to find anyone that can right really tight, optimized code anymore.

(I'm not even going to go into the Gnome 3 part, though. I could go on for a very long time about how they have screwed that on up )