[chef] Re: Re: Re: Issues with Locale on Remote Client Node when running knife ssh: chef-client for Ubuntu 12.04 and chef 10 or chef 11

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, April 26, 2013 at 3:01 PM, AJ Christensen wrote:

Use the 'environment' parameter to the execute resource to set

environment variables, i.e;

execute 'locale'

environment 'LC_CTYPE' => 'en_US.UTF-8'

command 'locale | tee /tmp/locale.txt'

end

Cheers,

AJ

mixlib-shellout cares in particular about LC_ALL. Given this code:

execute 'locale' do

  environment 'LC_ALL' => nil

  command 'locale | tee /tmp/locale.txt'

end

running `chef-apply locale.rb`, I get:

 > cat locale.txt 

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_ALL=

-- 

Daniel DeLeo

 

On 27 April 2013 09:59, Harry Yeh < "> > wrote:

Tried thia

execute "locale" do

command "

LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

locale >> /tmp/locale.txt"

end

that even shows up as

LC_CTYPE=C

You can try it

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:27 AM, < "> > wrote:

Currently I'm using chef 11 (just upgraded, hoping the problem would go

away

but it hasn't!)

So here's my problem.

When I type the command "locale" on my ubuntu machine the default output I

get

is the following:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

LANGUAGE=

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_ALL=

Assume that I have a cook book that will write a locale to a temp file in

a

recipe and cookbook

knife node run_list add server1 recipe[writelocale]

the following is the contents of the recipe/writelocale.rb

execute "locale" do

command "locale >> /tmp/locale.txt"

end

When I run this command

knife ssh name:server1 -x root -P password1 -a ipaddress "sudo -i

chef-client"

to run a recipe remotely I always end up with this.

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

LANGUAGE=

LC_CTYPE="C"

LC_NUMERIC="C"

LC_TIME="C"

LC_COLLATE="C"

LC_MONETARY="C"

LC_MESSAGES="C"

LC_PAPER="C"

LC_NAME="C"

LC_ADDRESS="C"

LC_TELEPHONE="C"

LC_MEASUREMENT="C"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"

LC_ALL=

I'm guessing it has something to do with the shell or how chef-server is

causing the remote ssh shell to execute. I only thing I can think of there

is

some chef process whether it's RabbitMQ or something else that is changing

the

default shell locale to C vs UTT-8. I've tried numerous things, including

trying to set the LC_TYPE="en_US.UTF-8" but I can't seem to do it, the

locale

always default to C. This is particularly a problem when I try to install

things like Postgresql, since I end up with the following instead of what

I

actually need.

What I should See

List of databases

Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access

privileges

-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------

postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |

template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres

+

| | | | |

postgres=CTc/postgres

template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres

+

| | | | |

postgres=CTc/postgres

When I remote and run apt-get install -y postgresql-server-dev-9.1

List of databases

Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges

-----------+----------+-----------+---------+-------+-----------------------

postgres | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C | C |

template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C | C | =c/postgres

+

| | | | |

postgres=CTc/postgres

template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C | C | =c/postgres

+

| | | | |

postgres=CTc/postgres

I've been stuck on this issue for a few days now seems trivial at first

but

it's become and issue since it affects what packages I can install with

the

Proper Locale.

Please help thanks!

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