Pybliographer doesn't start

[Erich Pawlik]

Pybliographer doesn't start after installation. When called from the menu, after a "please wait" cursor, nothing happens. When called from a command window, the output is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pybliographer", line 35, in ?
    locale.setlocale (locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Possibly useful environment variables:

LANG=POSIX.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=POSIX

LC_ALL has not been set.

Regards

Erich

[Erich Pawlik (erichpawlik)]

With

export LC_:ALL=C
pybliographer

it is possible to start pybliographer from the command line.

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

Thanks for the bug report. Could you tell which version of Ubuntu and pybliographer you are running?

I can't reproduce this bug with pybliographer 1.2.6.2-1ubuntu1 on dapper.

[Erich Pawlik (erichpawlik)]

I am using pybliographer 1.2.6.2-1ubuntu1, I don't know whether I found the bug on this version or an earlier one (I am always applying the most recent updates).

The problem has gone away on my machines. A guess (however I don't know how to set up a test to check whether the guess is Ok) is that the problem disappeared after I manually set the default language in System -> Language Selector to English (UK). The environment variables now are:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

I can reproduce the error by entering

export LANG=POSIX.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=POSIX
pybliographer

in a terminal window. Those were the settings after the Dapper installation (language=English (US), keyboard=German, location/time zone=Berlin).

Regards

Erich

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

This bug looks fixed, but feel free to reopen if it's still present.

[Erich Pawlik (erichpawlik)]

reopened as bug #38706

[William Grant (wgrant)]

This bug is still present in the latest Feisty version.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Erich, is this still a problem in Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) or the current development release hardy?

[Matt Neilson (ichthyoboy)]

I can confirm that this bug is still present in Gutsy.

[Aanjhan Ranganathan (aanjhan)]

Still present in Hardy.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Lowering importance due to known workaround.