Bug#425610: locales: dpkg-reconfigure fails: unexpected end of file
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:16:15PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:11:02AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > I am unable to reproduce this bug. Could you please add a -x to the
> > first line of /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postinst (after #! /bin/sh) and
> > rerun it again? This should tell us the location of the problem.
>
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching "'
> sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> $
>
> After stracing, it looks like that update-locale (perl) at some place
> does
>
> execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "LANG= LC_CTYPE= LC_NUMERIC= LC_TIME= LC_COLLATE= LC_MONETARY= LC_MESSAGES= LC_PAPER= LC_NAME= LC_ADDRESS= LC_TELEPHONE= LC_MEASUREMENT= LC_IDENTIFICATION= LC_ALL= LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=\"en_US.UTF-8 locale charmap 2>&1"], [/* 13 vars */]) = 0
>
> (note the missing quote after en_US.UTF-8 in the setting of
> LC_MESSAGES) which finally makes the shell barf.
My fault. I had
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8
in /etc/default/locales (note the missing quote).
Greetings
Marc
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