Bug 31197

Summary:	Fresh Mageia 9 Alpha1 install with 2 languages - setlocale errors in Plasma Terminal
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Robert Fox <rfox>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Different terminals opened

Description Robert Fox 2022-11-28 10:08:40 CET

Description of problem:

After a fresh install from Mageia 9 Alpha1 ISO - choosing two languages (English and German) - under KDE Plasma - when I open a terminal, I get immediately the following error:

bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_DE.UTF-8): No such file or directory
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_DE.UTF-8): No such file or directory
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_MESSAGES: cannot change locale (en_DE.UTF-8): No such file or directory



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 9 Alpha1

How reproducible:
Everytime after fresh install

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fresh Mageia 9 Alpha1 from ISO 
2. Choose two languages
3. after start open terminal

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2022-11-28 21:20:34 CET

Thank you for this report. Some simple questions:
1. Are we talking Konsole?
2. Which language were you using at the time?
3. Does the error happen if you are in the 'other' language?
4. After the terminal error messages, does it carry on OK?
5. Do you see this on a virtual console (Ctl/Alt/Fn)?

Are you able to try with another terminal application? qterminal should be easy to add; or lxterminal. I doubt whether that will change anything, but it is quick to try.

Do you yet know whether other applications suffer in any way?

CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Summary: Fresh Mageia 9 Alpha1 install - setlocale errors in Terminal => Fresh Mageia 9 Alpha1 install with 2 languages - setlocale errors in Plasma Terminal

Comment 2 Robert Fox 2022-11-28 21:26:55 CET

Answers:
1) yes Konsole or Yakuake
2) English
3) didn't try 
4) Yes - this only happens everytime I open a new teminal / console
5) Not sure - but I already shut my machine down for the evening - will report back tomorrow ;-)

Will try other terminal apps as well  . . .

Cheers,
Robert

Comment 3 Robert Fox 2022-11-29 13:48:56 CET

Created attachment 13537 [details]
Different terminals opened

Konsole and Console work - gnome-terminal fails to start - and a system console (alt-F2) - once I log in - works fine without any error - so most likely something with stock Plasma . . . .

Comment 4 Lewis Smith 2022-11-29 21:17:58 CET

Probable; but note that gnome-terminal reported "Locale not supported by C library".
I do not think I see any Konsole errors under Plasma. Just trying that under LxQt shows a big cursor blob way to the right, but input appears where you would expect. NOT to bug (yet).
I happen to have two languages installed, but only chose one (not English) at installation; English seems to be there (necessarily) without asking for it.

Assigning this to Plasma folk.

Assignee: bugsquad => kde
CC: lewyssmith => (none)