I recommend reporting this upstream (if you want it to be fixed).  Thanks.

It seems caused by the translated strings for "Mem:" and "Swap:" having different lengths than in English. In French the values for swap even end up in the wrong column: 

LANGUAGE=fr free
              total       utilisé      libre     partagé tamp/cache   disponible
Mem:        8050920     1831260      286324      117452     5933336     5798948
Partition d'échange:     8368256           0     8368256


@ Markus

When you file an upstream bug report, then please give the link to it in this report. 

Assigning to the registered maintainer.

CC: (none) => marja11
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA6TOO
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
Version: 6 => Cauldron
Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM

Just alerted them via email list ( procps@freelists.org ).
Keep you updated in case of any response.

Hi, looks like we will never get any respnse from them.
Had a look into SuSE's Tumbleweed-sources in the meantime -- they use dozens of patches for issues like this. Let's have a look into this rpm:
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/opensuse/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/src/procps-3.3.12-10.1.src.rpm

Fixed since v4.0.0
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/229

Actual upstream version is 4.0.4

Mageia 9 still ships the heavily outdated procps-ng-3.3.17 from February 2021!

Thanks to DavidG, we now have version 4.0.4 in Cauldron.
May we ask you to do the Mageia 9 bit? + Advisory...

Assignee: bugsquad => geiger.david68210
Status comment: (none) => Fixed since v4.0.0

Impossible to update mga9 with version 4.x, there is a lot of change with libraries that can't be updated!

Please test the upcoming procps-ng-3.3.17-2.1.mga9 in Core/updates_testing repo!

@Markus Robert Keßler: can you test the packages proposed in your system, I can't reproduce the fail in my system with the current procps-ng packages

I test the update and the packages updates without issues

Advisory from comment 10 added to SVN. Please remove the "advisory" keyword if it needs to be changed. It also helps when obsolete advisories are tagged as "obsolete"

Keywords: (none) => advisory

Tested on Real Hardware Mageia i586 lxqt
Before the update:

LANGUAGE=fr free
               total       utilisé      libre     partagé tamp/cache   disponible
Mem:         2050256      552932      370984       70060     1126340     1198848
Partition d'échange:    4189564           0     4189564

LANGUAGE=de free
              gesamt       benutzt     frei      gemns.  Puffer/Cache verfügbar
Speicher:    2050256      555336      366760       71776     1128160     1194728
Swap:        4189564           0     4189564

After the update
LANGUAGE=fr free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         2050256     1203848      173376       68852      673032      556892
Swap:        4189564      146808     4042756
[katnatek@cefiro ~]$ LANGUAGE=de free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         2050256     1204808      172408       68860      673040      555924
Swap:        4189564      146808     4042756

@David GEIGER: Is the expected behaviour? It looks like the problematic locales are removed

Nop there is now an issue with translation files, please test next procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9 update!

(In reply to David GEIGER from comment #14)
> Nop there is now an issue with translation files, please test next
> procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9 update!

Updated the advisory with procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9

Created attachment 14192 [details]
Test of procps-ng before and after the upgrade to 2.2 release

New test after tweak my /etc/rpm/macros to include de and fr locales (bug#32589)
I restore current procps-ng
Make test for en de and fr locales 
update to procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9 packages
Make again the test for en de and fr locales

The behaviour improves but still a few misaligned

Tested on Real Hardware Mageia 9 i586 lxqt

Markus as reporter, please test if the procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2 packages are good enough for you, the list of packages is the same as in comment#10 just change 2.1 to 2.2

Works with english and seems to format properly

CC: (none) => brtians1

(In reply to Brian Rockwell from comment #18)
> Works with english and seems to format properly

English is the only language that works

Alignment is still not good, i have for long set alias free='LANG=C free -h' because of this.


$ free
               total       utilisé      libre     partagé tamp/cache   disponible
Mem:         3764788     1321628      354744       21860     2398028     2443160
Échange:     8189244     1573036     6616208

$ LANG=C free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         3764788     1351452      426212       21860     2296736     2413336
Swap:        8189244     1573036     6616208

CC: (none) => geex+mageia

your window seems too small, you should increase its size.

I'm using the gnome-terminal default of 80x24. Resizing changes nothing.
I think they fixed the alignment for Mem and Swap lines, but not the header line.
In the outputs of https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/229 , all the header lines are in english...

(In reply to Guillaume Bedot from comment #20)
What terminal what are you usin?
I use source code pro semi bold 10
i get this with Finnish (Finland locale) :

[ozky@ozky-pc ozky]$ free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         8020760     4002072      291564      821052     3727124     2860500
Swap:       41575184     1530880    40044304
[ozky@ozky-pc ozky]$ LANG=C free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         8020760     4001612      337536      821828     3681612     2839912
Swap:       41575184     1530368    40044816

(In reply to Otto Leipälä from comment #23)
> (In reply to Guillaume Bedot from comment #20)
> What terminal what are you usin?
> I use source code pro semi bold 10
> i get this with Finnish (Finland locale) :
> 
> [ozky@ozky-pc ozky]$ free
>                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache  
> available
> Mem:         8020760     4002072      291564      821052     3727124    
> 2860500
> Swap:       41575184     1530880    40044304
> [ozky@ozky-pc ozky]$ LANG=C free
>                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache  
> available
> Mem:         8020760     4001612      337536      821828     3681612    
> 2839912
> Swap:       41575184     1530368    40044816

You get the output in English because the application not have translations for you language: 

usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/procps-ng.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/procps-ng.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/procps-ng.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/procps-ng.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/procps-ng.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/procps-ng.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/procps-ng.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/procps-ng.mo

the bug is valid and present at less for de and fr, see our brand new wiki page to test this type of bugs https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_process_for_testing_foreign_language_issues

@Otto, like katnatek said, you are comparing the same output (used, shared, etc don't seem finnish to me).
I'm comparing C / en locale with my language (fr) locale.

Yes....

Before the update of procps-ng (wiki above applied)
$ LANGUAGE=nl free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         3849256     1420048      259944      130696     2169264     2005608
Swap:        4094988        8764     4086224
after the update has been installed:
$ LANGUAGE=nl free
free: symbol lookup error: free: undefined symbol: kb_committed_as, version LIBPROCPS_0

CC: (none) => herman.viaene

(In reply to Herman Viaene from comment #27)
> Before the update of procps-ng (wiki above applied)
> $ LANGUAGE=nl free
>                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache  
> available
> Mem:         3849256     1420048      259944      130696     2169264    
> 2005608
> Swap:        4094988        8764     4086224
> after the update has been installed:
> $ LANGUAGE=nl free
> free: symbol lookup error: free: undefined symbol: kb_committed_as, version
> LIBPROCPS_0

You not install
lib(64)procps8-3.3.17-2.2.mga9

Advisory:
#####################################################################
free command output is misaligned when using many non-english locales
this update fixes the issue

References:
####################################################################
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/229
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22553


Packages in 9/core/updates_testing:
#####################################################################
procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9
lib(64)procps-devel-3.3.17-2.2.mga9
lib(64)procps8-3.3.17-2.2.mga9



SRPM:
####################################################################
procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9

Just update the advisory to make clear the versions

Give the 32-OK, based in my test in comment#16 and the lack of feedback of reporter

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA9-32-OK

mga9-64 OK: I see the problem fixed:
tested de and fr, and working output in nl too (same phrases as en) and sv is also OK.

@Marja:
Advisory need be updated regarding versions

I refrain from now validating as i have read it is not enough to remove the advisory keyword to hinder pushing when advisory is already uploaded.

CC: (none) => fri
Keywords: advisory => (none)
Whiteboard: MGA9-32-OK => MGA9-64-OK, MGA9-32-OK

(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #32)

> 
> @Marja:
> Advisory need be updated regarding versions
> 

Again? To which version, then?

(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #15)
> (In reply to David GEIGER from comment #14)
> > Nop there is now an issue with translation files, please test next
> > procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9 update!
> 
> Updated the advisory with procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9

Sorry if I'm blind again, but procps-ng-3.3.17-2.2.mga9 is in the advisory in SVN.
AFAICS that is the same as in the Advisory in comment 29


Last revision:
https://svnweb.mageia.org/advisories/22553.adv?revision=15399&view=markup

Revision log:
https://svnweb.mageia.org/advisories/22553.adv?view=log

Please re-add the advisory keyword if that is OK

Sorry, i got confused.
All OK :)

Keywords: (none) => advisory, validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2023-0148.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED