Bug 25070

Summary:	Doesn't check if a locale is supported before setting it
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	Sebastian Heinlein <devel>
Component:	backend-apt	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Sebastian Heinlein 2009-11-13 02:47:41 UTC

The transaction allows to set a specific locale. Packagekitd uses this value to set the LANG env for spawned backends.

But on Debian/Ubuntu not all locale definitions of libc are shipped by default. They get generated from source by request.

If the daemon sets a not supported locale this will lead in a crash of a spawned python backend - which uses the locale settings for decoding stdin correctly.

Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-01-05 10:54:07 UTC

Hi there,
This bug report is very old and based on a version not supported anymore. By upgrading to a newer version of PackageKit you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of PackageKit.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with the latest version.

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