Jira (PUP-7846) I18N LANG setting not honored when running puppet on redhat 7.3 on power8

[Eric Delaney (JIRA)]

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Eric Delaney created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7846 I18N LANG setting not honored when running puppet on redhat 7.3 on power8 Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 5.2.0 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2017/08/15 2:53 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Eric Delaney When running puppet using a different language setting, it fails to use the configured LANG language on redhat 7.3 on Power8 systems: [root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# LANG=ja_JP.utf8 puppet crazy Error: Unknown Puppet subcommand 'crazy' See 'puppet help' for help on available puppet subcommands [root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# The locale is listed as supported by the system: [root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# locale -a | grep ja_JP ja_JP ja_JP.eucjp ja_JP.ujis ja_JP.utf8 [root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# And all the .po files exist on the system: root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# pwd /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/share/locale [root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# find . -type f -print ./config.yaml ./es/LC_MESSAGES/puppet.mo ./es/puppet.po ./fr/LC_MESSAGES/leatherman_locale.mo ./fr/LC_MESSAGES/leatherman_logging.mo ./fr/LC_MESSAGES/puppet.mo ./fr/puppet.po ./ja/LC_MESSAGES/puppet.mo ./ja/puppet.po ./puppet.pot ./out ./en_US/LC_MESSAGES/FACTER.mo ./ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/FACTER.mo [root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# If you set LANG wrong, we detect that and facter complains: [root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# LANG=ja puppet crazy 2017-08-15 17:37:21.973108 WARN puppetlabs.facter - locale environment variables were bad; continuing with LANG=C LC_ALL=C Error: Unknown Puppet subcommand 'crazy' See 'puppet help' for help on available puppet subcommands [root@power8-rhel73-3 locale]# As you can see this works correctly with date: [root@power8-rhel73-3 puppet]# LANG=ja_JP date 2017ǯ 8�� 15�� ������ 17:42:18 EDT [root@power8-rhel73-3 puppet]# These same methods work on Intel based systems on Redhat versions. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.