Bug 64061 - LANG environment set to invalid Locale
Summary: LANG environment set to invalid Locale
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: skipjack-beta2
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-24 19:42 UTC by Brian G. Anderson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-05-01 16:15:17 UTC
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Description Brian G. Anderson 2002-04-24 19:42:37 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-9; Linux)

Description of problem:
After installing skipjack beta 2 and upgrading with up2date, all my shells have LANG=en_US.iso885915.  However, when I run programs like 'up2date' they complain that this is an invalid locale.  I have two machine at beta 2 and both exhibit this behavior.  I didn't have it in beta1.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install beta2
2. open shell
3. run up2date
 

Actual Results:  I get messages like:

(up2date:3993): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(up2date:3993): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers



Expected Results:  No locale messages

Additional info:

I can get around it by unseting LANG.  However, it is a pain since it screws up most KDE menu functionality.

Comment 1 Norbert Roma 2002-04-25 18:37:41 UTC
I did not run up2date and saw the same behavior. (I added a couple of packages
on top of the default workstation configuration, but I did not remove any of the
already selected ones.)

I saw it in the first beta as well.


Comment 2 Joe Smith 2002-05-01 16:15:12 UTC
There appears to be an XFree patch that affects this:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/ERRATA.html:

 Last updated: 11 March 2002

 1. Xlib problem on Solaris and SVR4

    On some platforms, particularly Solaris and SVR4, there is a
    bug in Xlib that prevents the i18n modules from being loaded.
    The symptoms are messages like the following:

      Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
      Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
      Failed to open input method

    A source patch is available in the fixes subdirectory
    (4.2.0-xlib-i18n-module.patch).  It is also included in the
    xf-4_2-branch branch of the XFree86 CVS repository.




Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2002-05-21 01:22:12 UTC
This frequently reported problem, was fixed in the final release of
Red Hat Linux 7.3.  Please upgrade.


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