Bug 15731

Summary: Setting japanese locale, causes all OS commands to fail
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <tonyn>
Component: locale-jaAssignee: Matt Wilson <msw>
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Description Need Real Name 2000-08-08 15:32:12 UTC 
Installed a mostly default english version of Pinstripe Beta-3 and also
Beta-5

If you run:
  
  1. export LANG=japanese   (valid language as listed by a "locale -a" ) 
  2. date
  
  On Beta-3 I get:
  Tue Aug  8 10:33:07 BST 2000
  
  On Beta-5 I get:
  date: loadlocale.c:220: _nl_load_locale: Assertion `idx % 4 == 0' failed.
  Aborted
  
  Now the behaviour I got on Beta-3 seems plausible, i.e. it thinks that
  japanese is not a valid locale, and reverts to using "C". I would have
  preferred to have seen some funny japanese characters in the date string
  but I am not too concerned since it does not prevent anything else from
  working.
  
  The behaviour on Beta-5 is more worrying - since I get this error for any
  OS command I run e.g. "ls".
Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2000-08-08 21:22:13 UTC 
you need to rebuild the locale-ja package from the src.rpm using "rpm
--rebuild".  After installing the resulting binary package, the Japanese locale
will work again.

This has been fixed here for quite some time.
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2000-08-29 13:20:52 UTC 
So can you confirm that this is not going to be a problem in the final RedHat7.0
release ? - or will everyone have to download and re-compile the source ?
Comment 3 Matt Wilson 2000-08-29 15:33:58 UTC 
oh, of course this won't be a problem in final - Japanese support would be
totally broken.

The locale def is in the glibc package now, so if the binary format ever changes
again there won't be problems.