Hi Aldo,
A colleague ran into a bug related to locale detection during
installation.
I fwd the conversation and proposed solution by Leonardo Soto:
PS: I already installed virtuoso on my machine. Haven't had the
opportunity to play with it, as all my spare time was spent
debugging
an installation problem. I discovered that it was caused by my
locale,
which was set to es_ES. "LC_ALL=C" made it work.
[I ask for more details...]
Sure. After all the problem is quite simple: Installation scripts use
netstat + grep to find out if the virtuoso server is up and listening
on a port. Problem being that the output of netstat is being grepped
as the following:
stat=`netstat -an | grep "[\.\:]$PORT " | grep LISTEN`
Which doesn't play well with my environment (Ubuntu 8.10, spanish
locale), where netstat is i18n'ed. Look yourself:
lsoto@spirit:~/src/virtuoso-opensource-5.0.9$ netstat -an | grep :80
tcp 0 0 192.168.0.109:53542 64.161.254.20:8001
ESTABLECIDO
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::*
ESCUCHAR
Thus, the grep don't match anything and the script think that the
server isn't up.
The obvious solution would be to change the grep line to:
stat=`LC_ALL=C netstat -an | grep "[\.\:]$PORT " | grep LISTEN`
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
I will add this to the current scripts for the next release and check
other parts of the script to see if more commands need to run under
LC_ALL=C.
If need be we can just run the whole script with this setting since
there is no benefit of partial locale in these scripts.
Patrick
