Bug 1895580

Summary: mrtg.service fails to start: Can't locate locale.pm
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Juan Orti Alcaine <jorti>
Component: mrtgAssignee: Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 33CC: anon.amish, vcrhonek
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Fixed In Version: mrtg-2.17.7-7.fc33 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description Juan Orti Alcaine 2020-11-07 09:43:42 UTC
Description of problem:
When starting mrtg.service it fails with the error:

mrtg[140865]: Can't locate locale.pm in @INC (you may need to install the locale module) (@INC contains: /usr/bin/../lib64/mrtg2 /usr/bin /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32 /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /usr/bin/../lib64/mrtg2/locales_mrtg.pm line 137.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mrtg-2.17.7-6.fc33.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install -y mrtg
2. systemctl enable --now mrtg.timer
3. systemctl status mrtg.service

Actual results:

nov 07 10:37:42 systemd[1]: Started Multi-router Traffic Grapher.
nov 07 10:37:42 mrtg[140865]: Can't locate locale.pm in @INC (you may need to install the locale module) (@INC contains: /usr/bin/../lib64/mrtg2 /usr/bin /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32 /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /usr/bin/../lib64/mrtg2/locales_mrtg.pm line 137.
nov 07 10:37:42 mrtg[140865]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/../lib64/mrtg2/locales_mrtg.pm line 137.
nov 07 10:37:42 mrtg[140865]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/mrtg line 96.
nov 07 10:37:42 mrtg[140865]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/mrtg line 96.
nov 07 10:37:42 systemd[1]: mrtg.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
nov 07 10:37:42 systemd[1]: mrtg.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Expected results:
All dependencies installed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Juan Orti Alcaine 2020-11-07 09:46:24 UTC
Installing perl-locale fixes the issue

Comment 2 Vitezslav Crhonek 2020-11-09 11:08:08 UTC
Thank you, reproduced. I'll add perl-locale to requires.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-11-09 12:54:04 UTC
FEDORA-2020-533c422757 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-533c422757

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-11-10 02:19:27 UTC
FEDORA-2020-533c422757 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-533c422757`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-533c422757

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2020-11-18 02:19:39 UTC
FEDORA-2020-533c422757 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.