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avahi-discover crashed with Error in setlocale()

Bug #131205 reported by BonBonTheJon on 2007-08-08

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	avahi (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Been having trouble with locale. Restarted and avahi must have crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 8 17:46:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/avahi-discover
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: avahi-discover 0.6.20-2ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/avahi-discover
ProcCwd: /home/jon
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/avahi-discover']
SourcePackage: avahi
Title: avahi-discover crashed with Error in setlocale()
Uname: Linux athena 2.6.22-9-386 #1 Fri Aug 3 00:21:52 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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BonBonTheJon (jonathan-mueller) wrote on 2007-08-08:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (12.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (631 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (404 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2007-08-09

Changed in avahi:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Lars Ljung (larslj) wrote on 2008-03-10:

ServiceTypeDatabase.py.diff Edit (382 bytes, text/plain)

If there are any problems with the locale the call to locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') will raise an Python exception, this exception is never caught. The bug is still there in avahi-discover 0.6.20-2ubuntu3.2.

The attached patch makes the program print an error message to stdout and then continue as usual.

Changed in avahi:
status:	New → Confirmed

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BonBonTheJon (jonathan-mueller) wrote on 2008-04-09:

I haven't had the problem in a long time. I'm wondering if this can be closed.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2009-04-28:

Confirmed the code is the same in Ubuntu 9.04. Decreasing importance as this doesn't seem to be affecting many people. I can't see a valid reason why the setlocale() should fail so not sure if a code change is appropriate.