[chef] Re: 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

[AJ Christensen < >]

My mistake, I only meant to correct the error WRT: environment parameter.

Cheers,

AJ

On 27 April 2013 10:09, Daniel DeLeo 
<
 >
 wrote:
>
> 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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>
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