Debian Bug report logs - #494989
unnecessary manconv locale warning spew

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: infinite loop manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:38:38 +0300

Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-2
Severity: important

I used debootstrap to set up a chroot on a system on which the locale
for my $LANG was not available.  man-db then showed:

manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

until I pressed ctrl-c.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Message #10 received at 494989@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: 494989@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#494989: infinite loop manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:54:00 +0300

Log:

Setting up man-db (2.5.2-2) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_COLLATE = "C",
	LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
	LANG = (unset)
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_COLLATE = "C",
	LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
	LANG = (unset)
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_COLLATE = "C",
	LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
	LANG = (unset)
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Updating database of manual pages ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_COLLATE = "C",
	LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
	LANG = (unset)
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
....
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 man-db

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Message #15 received at 494989@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, 494989@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#494989: infinite loop manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:45:29 +0100

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:54:00PM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> ....
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

It seems unlikely that this is an infinite loop. mandb simply spawns
manconv for each manual page, and each instance of manconv
(inconveniently) warns about your broken locale settings. Do you have
any reason to believe that the loop is infinite beyond the copious
quantities of output?

In order to check this, I'd need to see the output of 'mandb -dpq' run
as the 'man' user. (You'll need to redirect both stdout and stderr to a
file, and you'll need to compress the output as it will be very large.)

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

Message #20 received at 494989@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

Cc: 494989@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#494989: infinite loop manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:27:30 +0300

* Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2008-08-17 07:45]:
> It seems unlikely that this is an infinite loop. mandb simply spawns
> manconv for each manual page, and each instance of manconv
> (inconveniently) warns about your broken locale settings. Do you have
> any reason to believe that the loop is infinite beyond the copious
> quantities of output?

Yeah, it probably wasn't an infinite loop.  I should have used a
better subject line.  However, it was enough output that I'm wondering
whether it would make sense to suppress it.

Do you still need the log?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Message #25 received at 494989@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, 494989@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#494989: infinite loop manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:44:32 +0100

retitle 494989 unnecessary manconv locale warning spew
tags 494989 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 03:27:30PM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2008-08-17 07:45]:
> > It seems unlikely that this is an infinite loop. mandb simply spawns
> > manconv for each manual page, and each instance of manconv
> > (inconveniently) warns about your broken locale settings. Do you have
> > any reason to believe that the loop is infinite beyond the copious
> > quantities of output?
> 
> Yeah, it probably wasn't an infinite loop.  I should have used a
> better subject line.  However, it was enough output that I'm wondering
> whether it would make sense to suppress it.
> 
> Do you still need the log?

OK, in that case I don't need the debug log. This upstream commit should
do the job:

Sun Aug 17 16:42:43 BST 2008  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@debian.org>

        * src/accessdb.c (main), src/catman.c (main), src/globbing_test.c
          (main), src/lexgrog_test.c (main), src/man.c (main), src/manconv.c
          (main), src/mandb.c (main), src/manpath.c (main), src/whatis.c
          (main), src/zsoelim.l (main): Suppress locale warning if being
          called by another man-db program (Debian bug #494989).

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

Message #34 received at 494989-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 494989-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#494989: fixed in man-db 2.5.3-1

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:17:04 +0000

Source: man-db
Source-Version: 2.5.3-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
man-db, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

man-db_2.5.3-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.3-1.diff.gz
man-db_2.5.3-1.dsc
  to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.3-1.dsc
man-db_2.5.3-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.3-1_i386.deb
man-db_2.5.3.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.3.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 494989@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated man-db package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:20:59 +0000
Source: man-db
Binary: man-db
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.5.3-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description: 
 man-db     - on-line manual pager
Closes: 477305 480678 481226 482424 482791 482792 482810 483589 483862 483951 494989
Changes: 
 man-db (2.5.3-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
     - Cleaned up a number of possible crashes, memory leaks, and missing
       error checks found by the Coverity Scan project.
     - The LANGUAGE environment variable is now tokenised properly, rather
       than only taking the first two characters of each element.
     - man now correctly propagates the exit code of whatis or apropos when
       called with the -f or -k option respectively (closes: #477305).
     - Fix several manual page synopsis problems (thanks, Yuri Kozlov;
       closes: #480678, #481226, #482424, #482791, #482792, #482810, #483589,
       #483862, #483951).
     - Reduce the number of warnings emitted when using an unrecognised
       locale (closes: #494989).
     - manconv and zsoelim are now called internally rather than by executing
       external programs, to improve performance.
     - Manual pages may now be compressed with LZMA (although this is
       probably only worth it for very large pages).
     - Duplicate manual page hierarchies due to symlinks (e.g. /usr/man ->
       /usr/share/man) are detected and removed from the search order.
     - A locale modifier (e.g. @latin) in a directory name must now match the
       locale if the former is set, in addition to the language and
       territory.
     - Bare .so includes (e.g. ".so foo.1" rather than ".so man1/foo.1") now
       work, although only within the same manual page hierarchy for now
       (partially fixes #503472).
   * Add Homepage field.
   * Policy version 3.8.0: no changes required.
   * Pass CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to configure rather than make so that we don't
     have to keep up with the set of warnings that configure decides to
     enable.
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Message #39 received at 494989-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 494989-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#494989: fixed in man-db 2.5.4-1

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:17:22 +0000

Source: man-db
Source-Version: 2.5.4-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
man-db, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

man-db_2.5.4-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.4-1.diff.gz
man-db_2.5.4-1.dsc
  to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.4-1.dsc
man-db_2.5.4-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.4-1_i386.deb
man-db_2.5.4.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.4.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 494989@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated man-db package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description: 
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Closes: 121997 166701 167159 271402 384301 389762 461319 477305 480678 480996 481226 482424 482791 482792 482810 483589 483862 483951 494287 494989 496172 512233 516133
Changes: 
 man-db (2.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
     - Exit as soon as possible if database writes return ENOSPC (closes:
       #167159).
     - Make it possible to override man's default of discarding stderr when
       stdout is a terminal (closes: #480996).
     - Reorganise lexgrog to stop on any unrecognised roff request, rather
       than continuing and often littering the database with garbage (closes:
       #271402).
     - Make handling of terminal widths for cat pages configurable (closes:
       #121997).
     - Improve sorting and de-duplication of manual page candidates (closes:
       #389762, #496172).
     - Consider SO_MAN equivalent to ULT_MAN for the purposes of sorting
       candidate pages for display (closes: #384301).
     - Add regular expression and shell wildcard search facilities to man
       (closes: #461319).
     - Add option to disable hyphenation (closes: #166701).
     - Line length is a property of output, not input, so only check whether
       standard output is a terminal, not also standard input (closes:
       #512233).
     - Partially rewrite building of manpath according to locale. The
       previous code was completely wrong: as well as handling duplicates
       rather oddly, it effectively handled LANGUAGE in reverse order
       (closes: #516133).
 .
 man-db (2.5.3-3) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * Backport from trunk:
     - Update manual page search order to permit FHS-compliant installation
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 .
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 .
   * Explicitly configure --with-lzma=lzma.
   * Increase versioned dependency on groff-base to (>= 1.18.1.1-15) for a
     working -w option in nroff (closes: #494287).
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 .
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     - Cleaned up a number of possible crashes, memory leaks, and missing
       error checks found by the Coverity Scan project.
     - The LANGUAGE environment variable is now tokenised properly, rather
       than only taking the first two characters of each element.
     - man now correctly propagates the exit code of whatis or apropos when
       called with the -f or -k option respectively (closes: #477305).
     - Fix several manual page synopsis problems (thanks, Yuri Kozlov;
       closes: #480678, #481226, #482424, #482791, #482792, #482810, #483589,
       #483862, #483951).
     - Reduce the number of warnings emitted when using an unrecognised
       locale (closes: #494989).
     - manconv and zsoelim are now called internally rather than by executing
       external programs, to improve performance.
     - Manual pages may now be compressed with LZMA (although this is
       probably only worth it for very large pages).
     - Duplicate manual page hierarchies due to symlinks (e.g. /usr/man ->
       /usr/share/man) are detected and removed from the search order.
     - A locale modifier (e.g. @latin) in a directory name must now match the
       locale if the former is set, in addition to the language and
       territory.
     - Bare .so includes (e.g. ".so foo.1" rather than ".so man1/foo.1") now
       work, although only within the same manual page hierarchy for now
       (partially fixes #503472).
   * Add Homepage field.
   * Policy version 3.8.0: no changes required.
   * Pass CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to configure rather than make so that we don't
     have to keep up with the set of warnings that configure decides to
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