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Description of problem: iotop fails to start with wrong locale Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): iotop-0.3.2-3.el6.noarch How reproducible: [root@alice01 ~]# iotop Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/iotop", line 16, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 491, in main locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/locale.py", line 513, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting Actual results: locale.Error: unsupported locale setting Expected results: I would expect a warning and that the program continues as usual as the output of iotop is no wordy text. Additional info: Patch from upstream: http://repo.or.cz/w/iotop.git/commitdiff/12fe7daf5ffa5f569b15284e411fb518d704a765
reproducible complete reproducer: export LC_ALL=te_ST.utf-8 iotop
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No fix, then? (: Shall we run: LC_ALL=C iotop to 'fix' it?
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1719.html