Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#21991 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Unrelated tests will fail if locales is not installed

Reported by: Juan J. Martinez Owned by: ANUBHAV JOSHI
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: anubhav9042@… Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

If locales packages is not present any UTF-8 related test will fail with an UnicodeEncodeError in Python's codecs.py, that is in fact misleading.

Please note that setting the LANG (and related) env variable won't solve the problem as the issue seems related to the locales not being generated.

Perhaps we could include a test that detects the actual problem (locales not configured).

This issue can be reproduced in a debian based system by removing locales package (with dpkg --purge locales) and running the test suite normally.

To fix the system just apt-get install locales and then dpkg-reconfigure locales and generate the locales you need (eg en_GB.UTF-8), and the tests will pass.

I'm attaching a full error log of running the tests in a Debian Jessie system with no locales installed.

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error_log.txt (75.9 KB ) - added by Juan J. Martinez 11 years ago.
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Change History (4)

by Juan J. Martinez, 11 years ago

Attachment: error_log.txt added

error log, test failing

comment:1 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Component: Testing frameworkDocumentation
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Type: BugCleanup/optimization

We should probably document the requirement.

comment:2 by ANUBHAV JOSHI, 11 years ago

Cc: anubhav9042@… added
Owner: changed from nobody to ANUBHAV JOSHI
Status: newassigned

comment:3 by Tim Graham <timograham@…>, 11 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In abade6413bf55d305f005c02577ad7c6aede7fdf:

Fixed #21991 -- Added warning regarding tests failure if locales not installed.

Thanks reidrac for the report.

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