Ubuntu again. This time, it doesn't allow for setting an empty locale. Perhaps we should set it to C at once instead of to an empty string? root@ubuntu:/media/cdrom0/serverkit-linux# uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 8 04:39:23 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@ubuntu:/media/cdrom0/serverkit-linux# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 Codename: jaunty root@ubuntu:/media/cdrom0/serverkit-linux# /etc/init.d/vsmserver start Starting ThinLinc vsmserver Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/thinlinc/sbin/vsmserver", line 22, in <module> VSMServer ( sys . argv ) File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/vsmserver.py", line 87, in __init__ check_vsmserver_environment ( self . tlprefix , self . pidfile ) File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/checkenvironment.py", line 64, in check_vsmserver_environment O0ooo00OOo00 ( ) File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/checkenvironment.py", line 43, in O0ooo00OOo00 locale . setlocale ( locale . LC_CTYPE , "" ) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 513, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting root@ubuntu:/media/cdrom0/serverkit-linux# locale -a locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory C POSIX en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_NG en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 en_SG.utf8 en_US.utf8 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZW.utf8
The problem could not be triggered while logging in via SSH from maggie. However, it happens after: export LC_ALL=sv.utf8 With this, applications such as "locale" and "firefox" also complains: (firefox:19969): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library I guess the problem is basically that no swedish locale is installed. locale -a confirms this: locale -a locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory C POSIX en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_NG en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 en_SG.utf8 en_US.utf8 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZW.utf8 Although it's bad to set LC_ALL to a non-existent locale, we might want to handle this better in vsmserver, as well as our other scripts that does setlocale(). Perhaps we should, just like firefox, fallback to C. Not critical for 3.0.0, though.
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*** Bug 4550 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
