Bug 119186
| Summary: | less.csh bombs out if LANG isn't defined | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Greg Hudson <ghudson> |
| Component: | less | Assignee: | Karsten Hopp <karsten> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-03-29 09:23:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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LANG is always set in Red Hat Linux. Lots of applications will break if you remove random environment variables. Please set LANG to C (setenv LANG C) if you want to have default behaviour. Just as an application should not dump core for lack of an environment variable, a cshrc fragment should not bomb out for lack of one either. Given that it is trivial to fix this bug, correctness alone argues for a fix rather than an excuse. (Also, empirically, running without a LANG setting worked fine in RH9, with the exception of some "man" issues which also applied to LANG=C. So it is not true that "lots of applications will break" in this case.) |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: If /etc/sysconfig/i18n does not exist and GDM_LANG is not set, /etc/profile.d/lang.csh leaves LANG undefined. /etc/profile.d/less.csh then fails in: if ( $?LC_ALL ) then setenv LANGVAR $LC_ALL else setenv LANGVAR $LANG endif RH9 did not have this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): less-378-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove LANG from the environment 2. Run tcsh Actual Results: You see the error message: LANG: Undefined variable. and the user's dotfiles are not evaluated.