Jira (PUP-5574) Puppet agent fails with unrelated error when $LC_NAME set to non existing locale

[Christian Kaenzig (JIRA)]

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Christian Kaenzig created an issue   Puppet / PUP-5574 Puppet agent fails with unrelated error when $LC_NAME set to non existing locale Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 4.3.1 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2015/12/03 7:58 AM Environment: Debian Wheezy (up-to-date) puppet-agent package version 1.3.2-1wheezy Priority: Normal Reporter: Christian Kaenzig On a freshly installed minimal Debian Wheezy server, when the $LC_NAME variable is set to a a locale that is not installed on the system (typically forwarded through an SSH connection), any puppet command fails immediately with the following error: root@ckg-testme:~# echo $LC_NAME fr_CH.UTF-8 root@ckg-testme:~# /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet libfacter was not found. Please make sure it was installed to the expected location. When LC_NAME is not set, but other LC_* variables are still set to a non existent locale, puppet displays a meaningful error message and does what is expected: root@ckg-testme:~# unset LC_NAME root@ckg-testme:~# /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet agent --version 2015-12-03 16:24:34.415942 WARN puppetlabs.facter - locale environment variables were bad; continuing with LANG=C 4.3.1 Here is the strace output for the puppet agent --version command when $LC_NAME is set: https://gist.github.com/334dd217108d2e920fa2 According to this discussion on Stack Overflow, it can happen on other distros as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33609907/error-while-installing-puppet-agent-on-sles-11 I cannot reproduce this error on a Debian Jessie system. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.12#64027-sha1:e3691cc) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.