101573 2005-08-06 13:17 0000 dictd not starting because of locale issues 2007-08-18 01:18:32 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Applications unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213745 P2 normal --- 1 yosefm@gmail.com app-dicts@gentoo.org sascha-gentoo-bugzilla@silbe.org yosefm@gmail.com 2005-08-06 13:17:40 0000 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= rjenster@eiszeit.blogdns.net 2005-10-20 09:41:02 0000 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 philantrop@gentoo.org 2007-08-18 01:18:32 0000 Fixed in dictd-1.10.9.