Thanks for your report. Reproducible by setting a non-existent locale. meld should fall back to C instead of crashing. Setting to traiged/medium the workaround being to set the locale to C or an installed locale before launching meld.
** Changed in: meld (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: meld (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Visibility changed to: Public ** Description changed: Binary package hint: meld This probably shouldn't happen. + + TEST CASE: + 1. open a terminal and run the command: + $ LC_ALL=unknown meld + + Result: + meld crashes with the traceback: + Traceback (most recent call last): + File "/usr/bin/meld", line 75, in <module> + locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'') + File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 531, in setlocale + return _setlocale(category, locale) + Error: unsupported locale setting + ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: meld 1.5.1-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3 Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Jun 20 23:05:48 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/meld InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007.1) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/meld -a --label=pydlnadms.py@61:8485e07dd08b /tmp/thg.Ie2LtI/pydlnadms.1.61/pydlnadms.py --label=pydlnadms.py /home/username/src/pydlnadms/pydlnadms.py ProcEnviron: - LANGUAGE=en_AU:en - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_AU - LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + LANGUAGE=en_AU:en + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_AU + LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/meld', '-a', '--label=pydlnadms.py@61:8485e07dd08b', '/tmp/thg.Ie2LtI/pydlnadms.1.61/pydlnadms.py', '--label=pydlnadms.py', '/home/username/src/pydlnadms/pydlnadms.py'] SourcePackage: meld Title: meld crashed with Error in setlocale(): unsupported locale setting UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-16 (4 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/799721 Title: meld crashed with Error in setlocale(): unsupported locale setting To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meld/+bug/799721/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs