Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 137777
printconf-backend in non English locale
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Description of problem: If system configured for Russian language as system language in /etc/sysconfig/i18n then /usr/sbin/printconf-backend fail with python traceback and cups service also could not start correctly. I found that it happens in function "which_spooler" of module "cups_impour.py". Binary file "alternatives" display localized output messages while looks for English message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-printer-0.6.47.3.19-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 3 ES 2. Setup system language "Russian", for example by editing file /etc/sysconfig/i18n: LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="ru_RU.UTF-8:ru_RU:ru" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" 3. reboot system or execute in bash 'export LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8' 4. execute /usr/sbin/printconf-backend 5. restart cups : service cups restart Actual Results: /usr/sbin/printconf-backend does not produce lines Cups is restarted correctly Expected Results: /usr/sbin/printconf-backend is failed with python traceback and message about unbound variable 'which' in module /usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py Additional info: cups_import.py module execute /usr/sbin/alternatives in current locate but wait output message in English.
I found temporary solution to return cups back to English locale. Add in the beginning of /etc/init.d/cups file two lines: LANG=C NOLOCALE=yes So printconf-backend executed in C locale and work correctly.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131563 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.