gnu/93629: GNU sort(1) tool dumps core within non-regular locale settings

[Yaroslav Kolomiyets]

>Number:         93629
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       GNU sort(1) tool dumps core within non-regular locale settings
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 21 09:00:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Yaroslav Kolomiyets
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Information Systems Development Ltd.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD IYKolomiyets.isd.dp.ua 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #6: Thu Jan 19 23:20:36 EET 2006 ykol at IYKolomiyets.isd.dp.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386



>Description:
GNU sort(1) tool dumps core within non-regular locale settings:

$ locale
LANG=uk_UA.KOI8-U
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="uk_UA.KOI8-U"
LC_TIME="uk_UA.KOI8-U"
LC_NUMERIC="uk_UA.KOI8-U"
LC_MONETARY="uk_UA.KOI8-U"
LC_MESSAGES="uk_UA.KOI8-U"
LC_ALL=

$ ls | sort
Assertion failed: (mblength != (size_t)-1 && mblength != (size_t)-2), function inittables_mb, file /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/../../../contrib/gnu-sort/src/sort.c, line 706.
Abort (core dumped)

$ ident `which sort`
/usr/bin/sort:
     $FreeBSD: src/lib/csu/i386-elf/crti.S,v 1.7 2005/05/19 07:31:06 dfr Exp $
     $FreeBSD: src/lib/csu/i386-elf/crtn.S,v 1.6 2005/05/19 07:31:06 dfr Exp $
     $FreeBSD: src/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.c,v 1.4 2003/10/17 15:43:13 peter Exp $
     $FreeBSD: src/lib/csu/i386-elf/crt1.c,v 1.14 2005/05/19 07:36:07 dfr Exp $


	
>How-To-Repeat:
[unset all LC_* environment variables]
setenv LANG uk_UA.KOI8-U
setenv LC_CTYPE ja_JP.UTF-8
/usr/bin/sort

>Fix:
Set LANG and all LC_ variables to the same value.
	

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