Bug 792182

Summary:	systemd uses wrong locale
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Stefan Seyfried <seife>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Frederic Crozat <fcrozat>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	fcrozat, Stromeko
Version:	13.1 Milestone 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Stefan Seyfried 2012-11-30 13:48:40 UTC

I have set my locale to german, but root should only use LC_CTYPE:

susi:~ # grep -v ^# /etc/sysconfig/language|grep -v '""'|grep -v ^$
RC_LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
ROOT_USES_LANG="ctype"
AUTO_DETECT_UTF8="no"

However, systemd-started services use LANG=de_DE.UTF-8:
susi:~ # pidof libvirtd
1216
susi:~ # cat /proc/1216/environ|xargs -0 -n1 echo
ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext4
ROOTFS_FSCK=0
OLDPWD=/
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
vga=0x367
splash=silent
ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-label/root-FACTORY
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LIBVIRTD_CONFIG=/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
LIBVIRTD_ARGS=--listen

And thus pollute syslog etc. with german messages.

IMVHO, systemd should respect teh ROOT_USES_LANG setting.

Comment 1 Stefan Seyfried 2012-11-30 13:49:57 UTC

standard root user locale:

susi:~ # locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"susi:~ # locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

Comment 2 Frederic Crozat 2012-11-30 14:06:25 UTC

I guess enforcing (or not) English for root is debatable :)

systemd doesn't handle ROOT_USE_LANG for now. I'll see what I can do (but of course, patch would be welcome ;)

Comment 3 Frederic Crozat 2012-11-30 17:37:57 UTC

fix will be  available in a few minutes at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/fcrozat:/branches:/Base:/System/openSUSE_Factory/

please test

Comment 4 Stefan Seyfried 2012-11-30 19:02:40 UTC

Yes, works.
But I think the patch is incomplete (i just checked the sysconfig/language description and /etc/profile.d/lang.sh):
* if ROOT_USES_LANG == yes => behaviour as before the handle-root-uses-lang.patch
* else if ROOT_USES_LANG == ctype => LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=$RC_LANG
  -> this is implemented in handle-root-uses-lang.patch
* else (ROOT_USES_LANG != yes && != ctype) => LANG=POSIX

The default of ROOT_USES_LANG (even if unset) is "no", even though the comment in my /etc/sysconfig/language says the default would be "ctype".

So the missing case in the patch is the "ROOT_USES_LANG != yes".

... and IMHO for system daemons this is also a better default ...

Comment 5 Frederic Crozat 2012-12-03 14:07:53 UTC

I've updated the patch in my repository, please test again, it looks like it is doing the same thing as "before".

Comment 6 Stefan Seyfried 2012-12-05 08:16:47 UTC

Still works for me (with ROOT_USES_LANG=ctype) and the patch looks correct.

Thanks!

Comment 7 Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-12-05 19:00:15 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (792182) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/144340 Factory / systemd

Comment 8 Frederic Crozat 2013-03-11 16:26:57 UTC

*** Bug 807608 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Frederic Crozat 2013-03-12 10:52:21 UTC

closing as fixed