Issue #4903: ipa-client-install fails to set locale to non-existing locale value and crashes IPA master install - freeipa

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#4903 ipa-client-install fails to set locale to non-existing locale value and crashes IPA master install

Closed: Fixed None Opened 9 years ago by abbra.

A default OpenSSH configuration in Fedora 21 and earlier promotes user's locale settings when ssh-ing into a remote server. If the locale files don't exist on the server, installing IPA master will fail while running ipa-client-install as it tries to set a locale:

[root@fc1 ~]# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[root@fc1 ~]# ls -la /usr/share/locale/
en_GB/        en_US/        locale.alias  
[root@fc1 ~]# ipa-server-install [arguments]
...
Configuration of client side components failed!
ipa-client-install returned: Command ''/usr/sbin/ipa-client-install' '--on-master' '--unattended' '--domain' 'ipacloud.test' '--server' 'fc1.ipacloud.test' '--realm' 'IPACLOUD.TEST' '--hostname' 'fc1.ipacloud.test' '--mkhomedir'' returned non-zero exit status 1

# tail /var/log/ipaclient-install.log
...
2015-02-11T11:54:44Z DEBUG stderr=Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/authconfig", line 32, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/locale.py", line 579, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

As result, installing IPA master fails.