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unity8 package

when a locale is not set unity8-dash fails to start

Bug #1383485 reported by Eleni Maria Stea on 2014-10-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1303637: scoperunner in RegistryI test fails if locale is not set. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity8 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I tried to run Unity8 on a system where the LC_ALL locale was not set (LC_ALL=). The dash couldn't be loaded and the initial screen (with the "loading scopes" message) was flickering. When I checked the .cache/upstart/unity8-dash.log there was the following error message:

ERROR! Caught unity::scopes::ConfigException: Cannot instantiate run time for client, config file: :
unity::scopes::MiddlewareException: cannot initialize zmq middleware for scope c-337f828200000000:
locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not

When I manually set the locale to en_US.UTF-8 unity8 started normally.