KiCad crashes when trying to display help when a "locale" is specified

[Olivier]

Hello,

I run Debian linux with locale "LANG=fr_FR.utf8" and KiCad version "5.0.0-rc2+dfsg1-3".

When I do "KiCad > Aide > Manuel de KiCad", the help page is correctly displayed in my web browser ("file:///usr/share/doc/kicad/help/fr/kicad.html").

Now I want to run everything in English and do the same. Of course, I have package "kicad-doc-en" installed ("file:///usr/share/doc/kicad/help/en/kicad.html" is present).

=> I run "LANG=c kicad" and I click "KiCad > Help > KiCad Manual".
PROBLEM : The program crashes instead of displaying the help file in the web browser.

ASSERT INFO:
../src/common/filename.cpp(2025): assert "Assert failure" failed in IsValidDirComponent(): empty directory passed to wxFileName::InsertDir()

BACKTRACE:
[1] wxFileName::IsValidDirComponent(wxString const&)
[2] wxFileName::AppendDir(wxString const&)
[3] wxEvtHandler::ProcessEventIfMatchesId(wxEventTableEntryBase const&, wxEvtHandler*, wxEvent&)
[4] wxEventHashTable::HandleEvent(wxEvent&, wxEvtHandler*)
[5] wxEvtHandler::TryHereOnly(wxEvent&)
[6] wxEvtHandler::DoTryChain(wxEvent&)
[7] wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent(wxEvent&)
[8] wxWindowBase::TryAfter(wxEvent&)
[9] wxEvtHandler::SafelyProcessEvent(wxEvent&)
[10] wxMenuBase::SendEvent(int, int)
[11] g_closure_invoke
[12] g_signal_emit_valist
[13] g_signal_emit
[14] gtk_widget_activate
[15] gtk_menu_shell_activate_item
[16] g_closure_invoke
[17] g_signal_emit_valist
[18] g_signal_emit
[19] gtk_propagate_event
[20] gtk_main_do_event
[21] g_main_context_dispatch
[22] g_main_loop_run
[23] gtk_main
[24] wxGUIEventLoop::DoRun()
[25] wxEventLoopBase::Run()
[26] wxAppConsoleBase::MainLoop()
[27] wxEntry(int&, wchar_t**)
[28] __libc_start_main
[29] _start

My Debian packages are:
kicad 5.0.0~rc2+dfsg1-3
kicad-common 5.0.0~rc2+dfsg1-3
kicad-demos 5.0.0~rc2+dfsg1-3
kicad-doc-en 5.0.0~rc2+dfsg1-3
kicad-doc-fr 5.0.0~rc2+dfsg1-3
kicad-footprints 5.0.0~rc2-2
kicad-libraries 5.0.0~rc2+dfsg1-3
kicad-symbols 5.0.0~rc2-2
kicad-templates 5.0.0~rc1-2

Best regards,

Olivier

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

I'm unable to recreate.

@Oliver does this still happen?

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

I thought it should be a big C in the LANG export, I guess it does not matter.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Olivier (oc-spam66)]

Hello,

I checked again after the suggestion given above by Nick:

$ LANG=c kicad # -> crashes when I do "Help > KiCad Manual"
$ LANG=C kicad # -> works when I do "Help > KiCad Manual"

So it appears that the case of the "c" matters and it should be "C".
Crashing due to this typo seems to be an exaggerated consequence, don't you think?

Olivier (with KiCad version 5.0.0+dfsg1-2)

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

This appears to be fix committed in 5.1