VDR i18n doesn't work if LANGUAGE env is set

[m0sia]

Binary package hint: vdr

In Ubuntu Server environment variable is set. In my example:
cat /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
LANGUAGE="ru_RU:ru:en_GB:en"
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"

If it is set vdr doesn't find any locales and i can see errors in syslog:
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] VDR version 1.6.0-1 started
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] switched to user 'vdr'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] found 0 locales in /usr/share/locale
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'deu,ger'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'slv,slo'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'ita'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'dut,nla,nld'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'por'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'fra,fre'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'nor'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'fin,smi'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'pol'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'esl,spa'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'ell,gre'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'sve,swe'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'rom,rum'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'hun'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'cat,cln'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'rus'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'hrv'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'est'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'dan'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'cze,ces'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'tur'
Feb 4 10:59:34 home-server vdr: [11317] no locale for language code 'ukr'

If i remove LANGUAGE from environment and leave only LANG, vdr works correct:
Feb 4 15:23:48 home-server vdr: [19278] VDR version 1.6.0-1 started
Feb 4 15:23:48 home-server vdr: [19278] switched to user 'vdr'
Feb 4 15:23:48 home-server vdr: [19278] codeset is 'UTF-8' - known
Feb 4 15:23:49 home-server vdr: [19278] found 23 locales in /usr/share/locale

Ubuntu 8.10
vdr 1.6.0-5ubuntu2

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

I can confirm the problem, but the workaround doesn't work for me.

I've commented out LANGUAGE from /etc/environment but locale stays broken.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

ah,it seems that it worked for the original reporter because he has perhaps an /etc/default/locale file.

What did work for me is the following command:

echo VDR_LANG="$LANG" | sudo tee -a /etc/default/vdr

This bug has been fixed in debian. The patch can be seen here: http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/debian/v/vdr/vdr_1.6.0-8.patch

relevant part:

+++ 1.6.0-8/debian/config-loader.sh 2008-11-29 22:26:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ ENV_FILE="none"
 [ -r /etc/environment ] && ENV_FILE="/etc/environment"
 [ -r /etc/default/locale ] && ENV_FILE="/etc/default/locale"
 [ $ENV_FILE = none ] || \
- VDR_LANG=$(egrep "^[^#]*${var}=" $ENV_FILE | tail -n1 | cut -d= -f2)
+ for var in LANG LC_ALL; do
+ eval VDR_LANG=$(egrep "^[^#]*${var}=" $ENV_FILE | tail -n1 | cut -d= -f2)
+ [ -z "$VDR_LANG" ] || break
+ done
 [ -z "$VDR_LANG" ] && VDR_LANG="C"

 # Enable VFAT file system support by default

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I'll merge the new package for jaunty.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vdr - 1.6.0-9ubuntu1

---------------
vdr (1.6.0-9ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #325277, #360552), remaining changes:
    - Enabled patches:
      - opt-20_liemikuutio
      - opt-24_jumpplay
      - opt-27_ttxtsubs
      - opt-42-x_MainMenuHooks
      - opt-51_cuttime
    - Run debian/rules accept-patches to update the list of accepted
      patches.
    - Remove po/vdr.pot after build.

vdr (1.6.0-9) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Tobias Grimm ]
  * Removed debconf note "VDR needs DVB kernel modules" - DVB modules should
    be part of the standard kernel (at least on i386 and amd64).
  * Fixed debconf to not ask to create /var/lib/video.00 if it already exists
  * Added 19_dvb-api-v5.dpatch for new DVB API version 5 in kernel 2.6.28
    (Closes: #522011)
  * Updated debian/copryright
  * Added ${misc:Depends} to vdr-plugin-*
  * Changed section of all packages to "video" except vdr-dbg which became
    "debug"
  * Bumped standards version to 3.8.1

  [ Thomas Günther ]
  * Added removal of vdr-dbg.1 to clean target in debian/rules
  * Fixed substitution of 00list in debian/rules
  * Added French language texts to 10_dd-record-option.dpatch (Thx to Michaël
    Nival)
  * Upgraded opt-24_jumpplay.dpatch to version 1.0
  * Added French language texts to opt-38_disableDoubleEpgEntrys.dpatch (Thx to
    Michaël Nival)

vdr (1.6.0-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added 18_vdr-maintenance-1.6.0-2.dpatch (Closes: #485593)
  * Added opt-21_internal-cam-devices.dpatch
  * Added opt-53_dvbsetup.dpatch
  * Added opt-54_deltimeshiftrec.dpatch
  * Replaced libcap-dev build dependency by libcap2-dev | libcap-dev
    (Closes: #492681)
  * Fixed detection of default LANG setting to be used for VDR
  * Updated README.Debian (Closes: #499047)
  * Fixed reference to /usr/share/doc/vdr/README.Debian.gz in /etc/default/vdr
  * Added missing dpatch descriptions
  * Removed Lintian ovverride "shell-script-fails-syntax-check" for
     ./usr/share/vdr-dev/plugin-template/rules

vdr (1.6.0-7) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Thomas Schmidt ]
  * Fixed bashism in debian/rules (Closes: #491586)

vdr (1.6.0-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Removed stdout output from vdrleaktest to /tmp/memleaktest.log,
    create tempfile in debugvdr using mktemp now, to prevent
    possible symlink attacks (Closes: #496421)

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:20:49 +0300