meld crashed with Error in setlocale(): unsupported locale setting

[Matt Joiner]

Binary package hint: meld

This probably shouldn't happen.

TEST CASE:
1. open a terminal and run the command:
  $ LC_ALL=unknown meld

Result:
meld crashes with the traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 75, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 531, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
Error: unsupported locale setting

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: meld 1.5.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 20 23:05:48 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/meld
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/meld -a --label=pydlnadms.py@61:8485e07dd08b /tmp/thg.Ie2LtI/pydlnadms.1.61/pydlnadms.py --label=pydlnadms.py /home/username/src/pydlnadms/pydlnadms.py
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU
 LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/meld', '-a', '--label=pydlnadms.py@61:8485e07dd08b', '/tmp/thg.Ie2LtI/pydlnadms.1.61/pydlnadms.py', '--label=pydlnadms.py', '/home/username/src/pydlnadms/pydlnadms.py']
SourcePackage: meld
Title: meld crashed with Error in setlocale(): unsupported locale setting
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-16 (4 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Reproducible by setting a non-existent locale. meld should fall back to C instead of crashing. Setting to traiged/medium the workaround being to set the locale to C or an installed locale before launching meld.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This fallback now happens correctly at least in bionic