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Bug 1312688 - "libvirtd: initialization failed" if there is no english langpack
Summary: "libvirtd: initialization failed" if there is no english langpack
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libvirt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Libvirt Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: TRACKER-bugs-affecting-libguestfs
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-28 23:06 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2016-03-17 10:16 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-03-16 23:40:10 UTC
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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).
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