Bugzilla Bug 101573

It seems that dictd needs to run with --locale=en_US.utf8, otherwise it
silently
crashes (at least on my locale, LANG=he_IL.utf8). The url I mentioned mentions
this on the Debian bugzilla.

Adding said option to the initscript solves the issue. Seems silly to post a
patch for something this small, but the start line should look like this:

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/dictd -- --locale=en_US.utf8
$EARGS

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/dictd start
2. ps -A | grep dictd  # Nothing in the output

Actual Results:  
dictd doesn't start (but the service does not show an error message and needs
to
be zapped)


 $ locale -a
C
de_DE
de_DE@euro
en_US
en_US.utf8
he_IL.utf8
POSIX


$ locale
LANG=he_IL.utf8
LC_CTYPE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.utf8"
LC_TIME="he_IL.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="he_IL.utf8"
LC_NAME="he_IL.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="he_IL.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.utf8"
LC_ALL=

I can confirm this behaviour. Adding a note to the /etc/conf.d/dictd would be 
good thing. 
 
Regards, 
Ruben 
 
My locale is: 
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" 
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 
 

Fixed in dictd-1.10.9.