After trying to come up with a fallback for wrong locale I've to say this cannot be fixed at the point we hit the problem in unity-scopes- shell. It's already too late, and moreover there seem to be issues with the libstdc++ library when locale setup is broken and it's impossible to recover.
Related to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1745045/stdlocale-breakage-on-macos-10-6-with-lang-en-us-utf-8 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15467 When the locale setup is broken (which I can easily reproduce in my VM with only minimal ubuntu system with some locale settings pointing to non-existing PL locales, and LC_ALL is unset), all the locale-related C++ functions throw when trying to get current locale name and they also throw after trying to set LC_ALL to "C" at this point. In summary, these method calls throw: std::locale("") (should get us current locale setup) std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") std::locale::global(std::locale::classic()) The only workaround I can think of is to avoid the crash, end up with a blank Dash page and log an error message to unity8-dash.log. For the occasional problem with the tests we see when landing the package, I'll make sure LC_ALL=C when tests are executed. ** Bug watch added: GCC Bugzilla #15467 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15467 ** Bug watch added: GCC Bugzilla #70493 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70493 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity-scopes-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1363946 Title: unity8-dash crashed with SIGABRT in qt_message_fatal() under incorrect locale Status in unity-scopes-api package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in unity-scopes-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: unity8-dash gets into a respawn loop when the selected locale is unavailable. While it's understood that incorrect locale might result in unexpected behaviour, but aborting feels excessive. .log file mentions: ERROR! Caught unity::scopes::ConfigException: Cannot instantiate run time for client, config file: : unity::scopes::MiddlewareException: cannot initialize zmq middleware for scope c-17178aae00000000: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: unity8 8.00+14.10.20140828.1-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-mako armv7l ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: armhf CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Sep 1 11:55:15 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity8-dash ExecutableTimestamp: 1409258182 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-01 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch) - armhf (20140901-020204) LocalLibraries: /android/system/lib/libGLES_trace.so /android/system/lib/libstlport.so /android/system/lib/libgccdemangle.so /android/system/lib/libm.so /android/system/lib/libcorkscrew.so /android/system/lib/liblog.so /android/system/lib/libstdc++.so /android/system/lib/libutils.so /android/system/lib/libc.so /android/system/lib/libcutils.so /android/system/lib/libGLESv2.so /android/system/lib/libEGL.so /android/system/lib/libdsyscalls.so ProcCmdline: unity8-dash --desktop_file_hint=/usr/share/applications/unity8-dash.desktop ProcCwd: /home/phablet Signal: 6 SourcePackage: unity8 StacktraceTop: ?? () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 raise () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 abort () from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 QMessageLogger::fatal(char const*, ...) const () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Core.so.5 ?? () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqpa-ubuntumirclient.so Title: unity8-dash crashed with SIGABRT in raise() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip plugdev sudo tty video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-scopes-api/+bug/1363946/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
