Public bug reported:
I have a system which somehow had the wrong locale settings.
This leads to timestamps in log files from xinetd in the wrong date format.
Normally all our systems (>200) are set to US English and the locale settings
are as below.
cat /etc/default/locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
They should stay like this no matter what keyboard is attached.
Somehow on the affected system the settings in /etc/default/locale got changed
to this:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
I have changed them back to the US English default and invoked locale-gen.
Entering 'locale' at the shell prompt now gives the expected results but xinetd
still shows the wrong values.
I restarted xinetd and even uninstalled and reinstalled it but no success.
I guess a reboot may solve the problem but I would like to avoid this.
What makes xinetd stick to the wrong locale settings?
cat /etc/default/xinetd # gives no special settings as shown below
# Default settings for xinetd. This file is sourced by /bin/sh from
# /etc/init.d/xinetd
# enable xinetd Inetd compat mode
INETD_COMPAT=Yes
# Options to pass to xinetd
#
# -stayalive comes by default : it can be removed if xinetd is expected
# not to start when no service is configured
#
XINETD_OPTS="-stayalive"
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xinetd 1:2.3.15-6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-134.160-generic 4.4.140
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-134-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 5 08:29:05 2018
SourcePackage: xinetd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: xinetd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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xinetd has wrong locale
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