Logcheck devel - Oct 2008 - Bug#503000: logcheck fails due to a perl warning

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.68
Severity: important

I upgraded my lenny server today. I guess the previous update is something like
two weeks ago.
Now logcheck started sending mails containing only this perl error:
This email is sent by logcheck. If you wish to no-longer receive it,
you can either deinstall the logcheck package or modify its
configuration file (/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf).

System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
    are supported and installed on your system.
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
-- end quote --

Obviously there's something wrong with perl. But I also consider it a bug
that logcheck produces
'half' a result in this manner. It should really not be doing this.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-21-xen (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=sh: locale: command not
found)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser            3.110                 add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii  cron               3.0pl1-105            management of regular background p
ii  exim4              4.69-9                metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light 4.69-9                lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  lockfile-progs     0.1.11-0.1            Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail            1.2.68                Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx              1:20071201-3          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  sysklogd [system-l 1.5-5                 System Logging Daemon

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.2.68     database of system log rules for t

Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
pn  syslog-summary                <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar chomp at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
  logcheck/changes:
  logcheck/install-note:

Am Dienstag, den 21.10.2008, 19:11 +0200 schrieb Jan Evert van
Grootheest:
> Package: logcheck
> Version: 1.2.68
> Severity: important
> 
> I upgraded my lenny server today. I guess the previous update is something
like two weeks ago.
> Now logcheck started sending mails containing only this perl error:
> This email is sent by logcheck. If you wish to no-longer receive it,
> you can either deinstall the logcheck package or modify its
> configuration file (/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf).
> 
> System Events
> =-=-=-=-=-=-> 	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> 	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
> 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
> 	LC_ALL = (unset),
> 	LC_ALL = (unset),
>     are supported and installed on your system.
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> -- end quote --
> 
> Obviously there's something wrong with perl. But I also consider it a
bug that logcheck produces
> 'half' a result in this manner. It should really not be doing this.
 It's not really just wrong with perl but your general locale setup.
Please see /etc/environment and /etc/locale.gen. I expect that you have
a LANG=en_US.UTF-8 entry in the former but not in the later. This will
spit out messages like this with every other perl code you are using,
like e.g. also in upgrade logs, and I expect you haven't filed a
bugreport against apt for that, did you. :)

 Pretty please tell locales to generate the locale you set, that's the
only proper fix for that. This is not limited to logcheck at all, it
affects your whole system. Go through "dpkg-reconfigure locales" as
root. If you don't have the locales package installed you shouldn't set
LANG to anything else but the standard locale (C or POSIX), especially
not systemwide.

 Thanks. :)
Rhonda
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Just figured it out.
In debian, /usr/bin/locale is in the libc6 package. But, for xen from 
ubuntu, I'm using ubuntus libc6 which does not have it.
Hence the problem.

Same story for localedef.


If somebody would please close this brown-paper bag bug for this naive 
soul, thanks.

Your message dated Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:47:51 +0200
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logcheck fails due to a perl	warning)
has caused the Debian Bug report #503000,
regarding logcheck fails due to a perl warning
to be marked as done.

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