Bug 161075

Summary: init scripts don't take into account current locale, only default system locale
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dimitri Papadopoulos <dimitri.papadopoulos>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Dimitri Papadopoulos 2005-06-20 13:39:07 UTC
Description of problem:
The init scripts use the system default locale instead of the current locale.
This happens whether they include /etc/profile.d/lang.sh or not. The result is
that although I set LANG to see English output for debugging purposes, the
output is still in French, the default system locale:

# cat /ets/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:fr_FR.UTF-8:fr_FR:fr:de_DE.UTF-8:de_DE:de:el_GR.UTF-8:el_GR:el:ko_KR.UTF-8:ko_KR:ko"
# 
# /etc/init.d/portmap status
portmap (pid 1785) en cours d'exécution...
# 

I think these scripts should honor the current locale because they're sometimes
run by the administrator for debugging purposes, not only at system startup.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-8.11.1-1


How reproducible:
Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set current locale to be different from the system default one.
2. Run an init script.


Actual results:
	# export LANG=C
	# /etc/init.d/ypbind status
	ypbind est arrêté
	# 


Expected results:
	# export LANG=C
	# /etc/init.d/ypbind status
	ypbind is stopped
	#

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-20 14:15:00 UTC
*** Bug 161072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-20 14:15:08 UTC
*** Bug 161062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-20 14:15:20 UTC
*** Bug 161064 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-20 14:15:34 UTC
*** Bug 161066 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-20 14:15:34 UTC
*** Bug 161065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-20 14:15:56 UTC
*** Bug 161063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-20 14:16:01 UTC
*** Bug 161067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Miloslav Trmač 2005-06-20 14:16:18 UTC
*** Bug 161069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Bill Nottingham 2005-06-20 16:48:46 UTC
This means that the output of a script would change based on how the user may
have configured their language, as opposed to being generally consistent across
the system. That could surprise users; as such, I'm not sure I'd want to make
this change now. Perhaps once http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit is in
place, this could be revisited.