[rrd-users] rrdtool - 1.4.4 with wrong LANG environment

[Steve Shipway]

>From the stacktrace (excellent posting of relevant information, BTW!) it looks like it is choking within the locale conversion routines in gconv.  Under RedHat, this is part of glibc -- so it depends on the version of that you're using.

On our system:
# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.i686
# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib64/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.x86_64

I don't think there will be anything practical rrdtool can do to work around this since it is going to be highly OS and library version dependent. You might try coding some script before the rrdtool call to clean up the LANG env var?

The gconv seggy fault bug is known to RedHat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=176583
...but they thing they fixed it years ago.  Looks like its back again.  There are many other reports of similar gconv seg faults in other applications dating back to 2006, so I think gconv has always been a bit flaky.

My only suggestion really is to try upgrading or downgrading glibc, which is a rather hairy proposition under RedHat

Steve

Steve Shipway
University of Auckland ITS
UNIX Systems Design Lead
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