Thread: locale -a missing on Alpine Linux?
Since 2fe3bdbd691a, initdb has been failing on malleefowl:
performing post-bootstrap initialization ... sh: locale: not found
2022-11-15 23:48:44.288 EST [10436] FATAL: could not execute command
"locale -a": command not found
2022-11-15 23:48:44.288 EST [10436] STATEMENT: SELECT
pg_import_system_collations('pg_catalog');
That's precisely the kind of thing this patch was supposed to catch, but
obviously it's not good that initdb is now failing.
First of all, is this a standard installation of this OS, or is perhaps
something incomplete, broken, or unusual about the current OS installation?
## Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com): > First of all, is this a standard installation of this OS, or is perhaps > something incomplete, broken, or unusual about the current OS installation? Alpine uses musl libc, on which you need package musl-locales to get a /usr/bin/locale. https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/musl-locales https://musl.libc.org/ Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space
Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> writes: > ## Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com): >> First of all, is this a standard installation of this OS, or is perhaps >> something incomplete, broken, or unusual about the current OS installation? > Alpine uses musl libc, on which you need package musl-locales to get > a /usr/bin/locale. > https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/musl-locales Ah. And that also shows that if you didn't install that package, you don't have any locales either, except presumably C/POSIX. So probably we should treat failure of the locale command as okay and just press on with no non-built-in locales. regards, tom lane
On 16.11.22 20:25, Tom Lane wrote: > Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> writes: >> ## Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com): >>> First of all, is this a standard installation of this OS, or is perhaps >>> something incomplete, broken, or unusual about the current OS installation? > >> Alpine uses musl libc, on which you need package musl-locales to get >> a /usr/bin/locale. >> https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/musl-locales > > Ah. And that also shows that if you didn't install that package, > you don't have any locales either, except presumably C/POSIX. > > So probably we should treat failure of the locale command as okay > and just press on with no non-built-in locales. That's basically what we had before, so I have just reverted that part of my original patch.
On 2022-11-16 We 14:25, Tom Lane wrote: > Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> writes: >> ## Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com): >>> First of all, is this a standard installation of this OS, or is perhaps >>> something incomplete, broken, or unusual about the current OS installation? >> Alpine uses musl libc, on which you need package musl-locales to get >> a /usr/bin/locale. >> https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/musl-locales > Ah. And that also shows that if you didn't install that package, > you don't have any locales either, except presumably C/POSIX. > > So probably we should treat failure of the locale command as okay > and just press on with no non-built-in locales. malleefowl is a docker instance (mostly docker images is what Alpine is used for). It would be extremely easy to recreate the image and add in musl-locales, but maybe we should just leave it as it is to test the case where the command isn't available. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> malleefowl is a docker instance (mostly docker images is what Alpine is
> used for). It would be extremely easy to recreate the image and add in
> musl-locales, but maybe we should just leave it as it is to test the
> case where the command isn't available.
Agreed, leave it as-is.
regards, tom lane