Package: iotop Version: 0.4-2+squeeze1 Severity: normal When invoked on a server that does not share my locale settings, iotop simply refuses to launch until I force the locale to something that exists on the system.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/iotop", line 16, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/iotop/ui.py", line 506, in main locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 513, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting letting the application crash because of unknown locale should not be a good default. instead it should default to C I believe this behaviour is related to python's locale module's behaviour, and the locale.Error exception should be catched when calling _setlocale so that iotop can default to the "C" locale when it is not able to set the correct one. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages iotop depends on: ii python [python-ctypes] 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-support 1.0.10 automated rebuilding support for P iotop recommends no packages. iotop suggests no packages. -- debconf information: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = "en_US.utf8", LC_TIME = "fr_CA.UTF-8", LANG = "en_US.utf8" 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_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org