Bug#390987: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#390987: schroot segfaults on startup, perhaps because of how my LANG= variable is set

[Jason Spiro]

2006/10/4, Roger Leigh <rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org>:
> "Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > When I run
> >     schroot
> > it segfaults. When I run the following:
> >     LANG= schroot
> > it seems to work.
> >
> > My LANG variable is set to: fr_FR.UTF-8
> > I don't know if that's actually a valid setting for LANG, but it seems
> > to work in other apps.
>
> If the locale is not valid, it does give an error:
>
>   % LANG=fd schroot -h
>   E: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
>
> However, this does exit with an error, rather than segfaulting.
>
> Do you get any error messages prior to the segfault?
I don't remember if I did.

However, I am now back on my laptop (the PC where the problem
happened) and the segfault no longer happens. I guess we might as well
close the bug as not reproducible...

Thanks for your suggestions on how to try to debug though.

Jason

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