Re: Zenmap Crash with unknown locale..

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:41:39AM +0100, Olisemeka Omo wrote:
> On 20/07/2012 02:56, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:35:36PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:06:19PM +0100, Olisemeka Omo wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > My locale is Nigeria.
> > > > Below is the stack-trace..
> > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > Version: 6.02
> > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > >   File "/usr/local/bin/zenmap", line 158, in <module>
> > > >     zenmapGUI.App.run()
> > > >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zenmapGUI/App.py", line
> > > > 233, in run
> > > >     zenmapCore.I18N.install_gettext(Path.locale_dir)
> > > >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zenmapCore/I18N.py", line
> > > > 128, in install_gettext
> > > >     t = gettext.translation(APP_NAME, locale_dir, languages =
> > > > get_locales(), fallback = True)
> > > >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zenmapCore/I18N.py", line
> > > > 109, in get_locales
> > > >     loc, enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
> > > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 503, in getdefaultlocale
> > > >     return _parse_localename(localename)
> > > >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 435, in _parse_localename
> > > >     raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
> > > > ValueError: unknown locale: en_NG
> > > Thanks for this report. What is the output of this command?
> > >
> > > python -c 'import locale; print locale.getdefaultlocale()'
> > I hope to have fixed this problem in r29278. I think the cause is this
> > Python bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue6895.
> >
> > According to this comment, you can work around the problem by setting
> > your locale to en_NG.UTF-8.
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.6/+bug/482386/comments/4
> >
> > David Fifield
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for pointing out the solution.
> My problem is that the solution is dated 2009-11-20.  I am using Ubuntu
> 12.04 which uses the locale en_NG.  This means zenmap does not work out
> of the box. 
> Is there a way to map en_NG to en_NG.UTF-8?

If you installed Zenmap from source code (it looks like you may have),
then the easiest thing is to just do "svn update" and reinstall.

David Fifield
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