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Bug 1312688

Summary:	"libvirtd: initialization failed" if there is no english langpack
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	agedosier, berrange, clalancette, crobinso, itamar, jforbes, laine, libvirt-maint, rjones, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2016-02-28 23:06:34 UTC

Description of problem:

In Rawhide, glibc doesn't install the English locale by default.
This stops libvirtd from starting up:

$ sudo libvirtd --help
libvirtd: initialization failed

but after installing glibc-langpack-en, it works:

$ sudo libvirtd --help

Usage:
  libvirtd [options]
[etc]

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

libvirt-daemon-1.3.1-2.fc24.aarch64
(although this is arm 64 bit, I think this would affect any arch)

How reproducible:

100% probably?

Steps to Reproduce:

Upgrade libvirt from F23 -> F24.

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2016-02-29 13:53:07 UTC

That error message comes from daemon/libvirtd.c in this code:

    if (setlocale(LC_ALL, "") == NULL ||
        bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR) == NULL ||
        textdomain(PACKAGE) == NULL ||
        virInitialize() < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, _("%s: initialization failed\n"), argv[0]);
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

Presumably one of those 3 locale related functions is now failing, but I wonder why the would fail ?

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2016-02-29 15:24:22 UTC

Started a thread upstream to discuss what to do:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-February/msg01470.html

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2016-02-29 15:25:23 UTC

setlocale fails, the others are successful.

Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2016-03-16 23:38:12 UTC

Rich, wasn't this get fixed on the fedora glibc side? any idea if we still need libvirt patching?

Comment 5 Cole Robinson 2016-03-16 23:40:10 UTC

I see Jan's comment on libvirt-list about this Fedora upgrade bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312103

Maybe there was a packaging issue too which prevented any locale from being available. I'll close this bug, but anyone reopen if we still need to patch libvirt

Comment 6 Richard W.M. Jones 2016-03-17 10:16:35 UTC

Yes this is fixed in glibc.  Probably best to continue this
on the mailing list (see comment 2).