Issues with OpenStackClient / Locale / OSX

[Maish]

When running the openstack client from a Mac I get the following error

[msaidelk@MSAIDELK-M-10UB ~(keystone_maish)]$ openstack
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/openstack", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/openstackclient/shell.py", line 342, in main
    return OpenStackShell().run(argv)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/openstackclient/shell.py", line 79, in __init__
    command_manager=commandmanager.CommandManager('openstack.cli'))
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/cliff/app.py", line 74, in __init__
    self._set_streams(stdin, stdout, stderr)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/cliff/app.py", line 82, in _set_streams
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 547, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

all other python clients work without issues

[Steve Martinelli (stevemar)]

Maybe this will help, http://technodrone.blogspot.ca/2015/03/installing-openstack-cli-clients-on-mac.html?m=1

[Steve Martinelli (stevemar)]

Yep, I linked your own blog. My bad.

[Maish (maishsk)]

:)
Hi Steve. The bug still exists - even after doing the install as posted in the blog

[Steve Martinelli (stevemar)]

Maish, can you provide more detail about the locale settings you have set? Looks like this might be a cliff (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cliff/1.10.1) issue on how it handles different locales (specifically on osx).

[Dean Troyer (dtroyer)]

Maish, I've developed OSC on OS/X 10.8 and 10.9 from the start. I suspect though that you may not have the same default locale setup I do, which is actually stock OS/X English whatever. A little more info on your versions and local would help, and I need to get up to speed on that myself.

[Steve Martinelli (stevemar)]

I think you'll have to set have: LC_ALL=<something> set:

for instance: export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

I'm not sure if there is a clean way to handle this from cliff.

[Maish (maishsk)]

I do agree that is is probably something with my locale settings

msaidelk@MSAIDELK-M-10UB:~$ locale
LANG="US"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL="C"

Changing my locale to this
msaidelk@MSAIDELK-M-10UB:~$ locale
LANG="US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

The CLI works without any problems.

Does that help?

[Dean Troyer (dtroyer)]

My locale settings are by default:

 dtroyer@bunsen:~ $ locale
 LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_ALL=

I do this and it still works:

 dtroyer@bunsen:~ $ export LC_ALL="C"
 dtroyer@bunsen:~ $ locale
 LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_COLLATE="C"
 LC_CTYPE="C"
 LC_MESSAGES="C"
 LC_MONETARY="C"
 LC_NUMERIC="C"
 LC_TIME="C"
 LC_ALL="C"

With my settings identical to yours it still works. I turned off 'Set locale variables automatically' in iTerm and got this:

dtroyer@bunsen:~ $ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

Still worked.

There seem to be a number of oddities on OS/X and Python per Google (https://bugs.python.org/issue23739 is close, https://bugs.python.org/issue18378 isn't exact but smells similar)

I believe this is a combination of a couple of things, we just need to figure out what...

 OS/X: 10.9.5
 iTerm: 2.0
 Python: 2.7.5
 OSC: master (1.0.3++)
 cliff: 1.10.1

[Steve Martinelli (stevemar)]

Maish, i think with the latest cliff and osc this bug should be fixed.

cliff bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-cliff/+bug/1445760 should be fixed with cliff>1.11.0, which unfortunately means that only the master branch of OSC has the fix, or you may update cliff manually.

[Dean Troyer (dtroyer)]

This looks fixed for me on Mavericks and both cliff and OSC master. Marking committed pending releases of both cliff and OSC.