libc does not do per-domain result caching

[Martin Willemoes Hansen]

The Gnome About dialog is out of sync with the upstream Danish translation, the
about dialog is part of gnome-desktop.
Why it is not in sync, I dont know, maybe of some modification to the upstream
package? Or bad translation management in Ubuntu?

[Martin Willemoes Hansen (mwh)]

Created an attachment (id=1735)
Screenshot of the problem

This screenshot shows the problem.
It also shows that the about dialog has been translated into Danish for the
vanilla Gnome-2.10 version of gnome-desktop.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that works fine here, do you have the language-pack-da installed ?

[Martin Willemoes Hansen (mwh)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> that works fine here, do you have the language-pack-da installed ?

Yes I have it installed, I have just updated my preview system with all the
latest packages including an update to the danish translations, but the problem
persists. The upgrade fixes the keyboard-setup dialog though, but not this problem.

Are you sure that it works for your danish installation?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 14206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 14210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that works fine here. Can you run "strace gnome-about 2>&1 | grep
gnome-desktop-2.0.mo" ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 14211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 14212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Martin Willemoes Hansen (mwh)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> that works fine here. Can you run "strace gnome-about 2>&1 | grep
> gnome-desktop-2.0.mo" ?

strace gnome-about 2>&1 | grep gnome-desktop-2.0.mo
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/da_DK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-desktop-2.0.mo",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-desktop-2.0.mo", O_RDONLY)
= 10
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-desktop-2.0.mo",
O_RDONLY) = 10
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-desktop-2.0.mo", O_RDONLY)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What is the value of $LANGUAGE (alt-f2, echo $LANGUAGE | zenity --text-info) ?

[Martin Willemoes Hansen (mwh)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> What is the value of $LANGUAGE (alt-f2, echo $LANGUAGE | zenity --text-info) ?

da_DK:da:en_GB:en

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that seems to be right. Could you run that:
- unset LANGUAGE
- LC_ALL=da_DK.UTF-8 gnome-about (or an another app)

Martin, do you have an idea on why it opens the en_GB po file ?

[Martin Willemoes Hansen (mwh)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> that seems to be right. Could you run that:
> - unset LANGUAGE
> - LC_ALL=da_DK.UTF-8 gnome-about (or an another app)

This make it display it in Danish :o)

>
> Martin, do you have an idea on why it opens the en_GB po file ?

I suspect it has something with Gdm to do, I did this after the procedure above:

1. logout
2. set the language in gdm to Danish
3. login

Now the about dialog is allways in Danish.

This is the env. vars. I have now:
GDM_LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=da_DK.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Also please note that this does _only_ solve the problem with the about dialog,
not the problems with Evolution being out of sync translation wise and
gnome-media, totem and soundjuicer completly lacking the Danish translation.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

works fine for these software in da_DK.UTF-8 here. Could you run "strace
sound-juicer 2>&1 | grep sound-juicer.mo" ?

[Martin Willemoes Hansen (mwh)]

(In reply to comment #14)
> works fine for these software in da_DK.UTF-8 here. Could you run "strace
> sound-juicer 2>&1 | grep sound-juicer.mo" ?

$ strace sound-juicer 2>&1 | grep sound-juicer.mo
open("/usr/share/locale/da_DK.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/sound-juicer.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/da_DK.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/sound-juicer.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/da_DK/LC_MESSAGES/sound-juicer.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/da.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/sound-juicer.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/da.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/sound-juicer.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/sound-juicer.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)

Seems the translations is missing.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems to be a libc6 issue, reassigning to Martin

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

<seb128> libc b0rkage ?
<pitti> might be
<seb128> :(
<seb128> I'm reassigning the bug to you I guess
<pitti> but works for me
<pitti> (for .de)
<pitti> yeah, please do
<seb128> works for me
<seb128> fr_FR.UTF-8
<seb128> but I get the issue with da_DK.UTF-8
<seb128> is that possible that's due to da != dk ?
<pitti> hmm, I have an idea
<seb128> we have fr_FR, de_DE
<pitti> shit, libc b0rkage
<seb128> :(
<pitti> fabbione's buildd will spank me to death
<seb128> where is the bug ?
<pitti> it has to do with the stat64() optimizations
<pitti> when I wrote this, I didn't take into account that a program can in fact
use several domains in parallel
<pitti> s-j starts with domain gstreamer-0.8
<pitti> for me it finds this in locale-langpack
<pitti> then it takes all subsequent locales from -langpack, too
<pitti> for dk, gstreamer might not be translated
<pitti> or, at least not in the langpack
<pitti> so it uses /usr/share/locale for all domains
<pitti> fuck
<seb128> oh, right
<pitti> so either I have to do per-domain caching
<pitti> or revert the caching altogether
<pitti> I comment on the bug and reassing
<pitti> unless you already did
<seb128> right, gstreamer0.8 has no da po file
<seb128> I've reassigned it to you/libc6

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

*** Bug 14324 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I sent the fix to Jeff Bailey yesterday, he will upload a new glibc soon.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 glibc (2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu12) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * Martin Pitt <email address hidden>
 .
      - debian/patches/ubuntu-altlocaledir.dpatch: Revert new time
        comparison result caching from 2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu11 since this
        breaks if applications use several translation domains from both
        /usr/share/locale and /usr/share/locale-langpack/. Now just avoid
        to stat64() files when we already know that they don't exist.
        This reduces the number of stat calls at least a bit.
        (Ubuntu #7835)
      - debian/local/usr_sbin/remove-language-locales: Never remove the
        system default locale specified in /etc/environment.
        (Ubuntu #8000)
  [...]