glibc encounters problems with locale

[david23]

On bionic, some external applications (e.g., Abaqus, flex lexer) abort because of the following error:

loadlocale.c:130: _nl_intern_locale_data: Assertion `cnt < (sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_TIME) / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_TIME[0]))' failed.

By setting LC_ALL=C, everything works fine.

This also appens on debian, as seen in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49301627/android-7-1-2-armv7

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: locales 2.27-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: talpa_vfshook talpa_pedconnector talpa_pedevice talpa_vcdevice talpa_core talpa_linux talpa_syscallhook nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 23 15:45:32 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-18 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: glibc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.