Bug 1283277

Summary:	Decimal separator in ping -i <interval> is locale dependent
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	srakitnican <samuel.rakitnican>
Component:	iputils	Assignee:	Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description srakitnican 2015-11-18 15:19:22 UTC

Description of problem: 

$ ping -i 0.2 localhost
ping: bad timing interval
$ echo $LC_NUMERIC
hr_HR.utf8
$ LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8
$ ping -i 0.2 localhost
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.058 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.056 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.054 ms


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
iputils-20140519-6.fc23.x86_64

How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. In terminal: LC_NUMERIC=hr_HR.utf8
2. ping -i 0.2 localhost

Actual results: ping: bad timing interval


Expected results: That commands doesn't change behavior depending on selected locale settings.


Additional info: I found this old bug report while searching and sure enough helped in debugging this problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905840

Comment 1 Jan Synacek 2015-11-19 13:22:30 UTC

Fixed upstream:
https://github.com/iputils/iputils/pull/37

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-11-20 12:19:11 UTC

iputils-20140519-7.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-a11ccc5623

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-11-22 14:26:26 UTC

iputils-20140519-7.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update iputils'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-a11ccc5623

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-11-24 19:51:37 UTC

iputils-20140519-7.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.