Bug 849559 – iotop fails to start with wrong locale

Bug 849559 - iotop fails to start with wrong locale

Summary:	iotop fails to start with wrong locale

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	iotop (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity low
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Michal Hlavinka
QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Reported:	2012-08-20 04:08 EDT by Gianluca Varisco
Modified:	2015-05-27 08:47 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	iotop-0.3.2-7.el6
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Last Closed:	2013-11-21 18:49:17 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Debian BTS	593846	None	None	None	2012-08-20 04:08:02 EDT

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Description Gianluca Varisco 2012-08-20 04:08:02 EDT

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

Comment 1 Michal Hlavinka 2012-08-20 04:19:14 EDT

reproducible
complete reproducer:
export LC_ALL=te_ST.utf-8
iotop

Comment 2 RHEL Product and Program Management 2012-09-07 01:10:04 EDT

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 3 Gianluca Varisco 2013-05-08 17:05:56 EDT

No fix, then? (:

Shall we run:

LC_ALL=C iotop 

to 'fix' it?

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 18:49:17 EST

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

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