Localization support does not work at boot time

[Gabor Kelemen]

Binary package hint: mountall

After translating mountall, I put the mo file to the usual place, but the file system check messages still show up untranslated. Another translator confirmed this: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2010-April/003594.html

When looking at the source, I noticed that it contains nothing like the ususal bindtextdomain calls.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Yes it does:

in main() src/mountall.c calls:

        nih_main_init (argv[0]);

this is a macro in nih/main.h that expands out to:

                setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); \
                bindtextdomain (PACKAGE_NAME, LOCALEDIR); \
                textdomain (PACKAGE_NAME); \

                nih_main_init_full (argv0, PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, \
                                    PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT); \

Are you sure this isn't caused by having /usr on a separate filesystem - so the translations being unavailable when mountall starts?

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

No, I saw this on my virtualbox install, which has only one partition. And another translator just reported this too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553954/comments/14

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

I confirm this bug.
I upgraded from Karmic and messages are still in english,