https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62192
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 62192
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: : broken launch script, bork in March in Germany
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: Linux (All)
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Whiteboard: BSA
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.0.1.2 release
Component: Localization
Product: LibreOffice
Problem description:
I ran into this problem last year, in the same month, and here I am again. This
section of code is in /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice:
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# resolve installation directory
sd_cwd="`pwd`"
if [ -h "$0" ] ; then
sd_basename=`basename "$0"`
sd_script=`ls -l "$0" | sed "s/.*${sd_basename} -> //g"`
cd "`dirname "$0"`"
cd "`dirname "$sd_script"`"
else
cd "`dirname "$0"`"
fi
sd_prog=`pwd`
cd "$sd_cwd"
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The gentoo developers rightly refer to this code as "completely broken", as it
causes LibreOffice to puke on launch when trying to determine the month string
of its working directory if used on a system for which certain months use
non-standard characters.
For instance, in Gremany, the current month is "März." Launching LO any time
between now and 2013-04-01 will cause LO to fail with the following error:
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$ libreoffice
ls: error initializing month strings
/usr/bin/libreoffice: line 58: cd: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 10.
Mä/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/libreoffice: line 180: /usr/bin/oosplash: No such file or directory
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Steps to reproduce:
1. set the filesystem locale to German (any variant)
2. try to launch LO in the month of March
3. cry
Current behavior: the launcher pukes
Expected behavior: the launcher could maybe use a coreutil that is pretty good
at reading month strings? In any case, it should launch properly.
Cheers,
Operating System: Linux (Other)
Version: 4.0.1.2 release
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