Bug 29136 – After emerge coreutils sort don't work if LANG!=C

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sven Sternberger 2003-09-19 10:01:11 UTC]

Hello!

today I recognized that etc-update don't work, because "sort" is broken.
If I set LANG=C (normally I have de_DE@euro) it is okay



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.set LANG=de_DE@euro
2.emerge coreutils (developer version)
3.sort /some/file

Actual Results:  
The error message is:

sort: sort.c:714: inittables_mb: Zusicherung 

[Comment 1 Sven Sternberger 2003-09-19 10:01:11 UTC]

Hello!

today I recognized that etc-update don't work, because "sort" is broken.
If I set LANG=C (normally I have de_DE@euro) it is okay



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.set LANG=de_DE@euro
2.emerge coreutils (developer version)
3.sort /some/file

Actual Results:  
The error message is:

sort: sort.c:714: inittables_mb: Zusicherung »mblength != (size_t)-1 && mblength
!= (size_t)-2« nicht erfüllt.

This is of course german because with LANG=C I don't see the error ;-), 
but here is >>my<< translation:

sort: sort.c:714: inittables_mb: Assurance »mblength != (size_t)-1 && mblength
!= (size_t)-2« not fulfilled.

Expected Results:  
Sort the file!

The other text utils I checked seems to be fine (head, tail and wv)

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-11-03 14:29:47 UTC]

Known issue - that is why I do not want the LANG=foo in make.conf, bug rather
ELANG or such.  Seemant, who handles the locales stuff again ?

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-12-08 18:20:07 UTC]

I have a possible patch for this, actually.

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-12-29 20:05:19 UTC]

Sven,

Can you please try coreutils-5.0.91-r3 and report if this still happens or if it is fixed?

[Comment 5 Ciaran McCreesh 2003-12-29 23:37:40 UTC]

-r3 fixes this for me. I emerged with de_DE@euro and could use sort as expected.

[Comment 6 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-02-21 16:21:00 UTC]

closing