Package resource : Support non-EN locale in Chef 12

[BarthV]

Ohai Chefs !

Just wanted to report a bug when using a simple package ressource :

Vagrant precise VM :

~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

~# chef-apply -v
Chef: 12.0.3

~# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

~# echo 'package "ntp"' > /tmp/test.rb && chef-apply /tmp/test.rb
Recipe: (chef-apply cookbook)::(chef-apply recipe)
  * apt_package[ntp] action install
    - install version 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.1 of package ntp

Now just change locale to fr_FR :

~# locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8

~# echo 'package "ntp"' > /tmp/test.rb && chef-apply /tmp/test.rb
Recipe: (chef-apply cookbook)::(chef-apply recipe)
  * apt_package[ntp] action install
    * No version specified, and no candidate version available for ntp
    ================================================================================
    Error executing action `install` on resource 'apt_package[ntp]'
    ================================================================================

    Chef::Exceptions::Package
    -------------------------
    No version specified, and no candidate version available for ntp

    Resource Declaration:
    ---------------------
    # In /tmp/test.rb

      1: package "ntp"

    Compiled Resource:
    ------------------
    # Declared in /tmp/test.rb:1:in `run_chef_recipe'

    apt_package("ntp") do
      action :install
      retries 0
      retry_delay 2
      default_guard_interpreter :default
      package_name "ntp"
      timeout 900
      declared_type :package
      cookbook_name "(chef-apply cookbook)"
      recipe_name "(chef-apply recipe)"
    end

[2014-12-22T13:48:19+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2014-12-22T13:48:19+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Package: apt_package[ntp] ((chef-apply cookbook)::(chef-apply recipe) line 1) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Package: No version specified, and no candidate version available for ntp

Same conf with chef 11 :

~# chef-apply -v
Chef: 11.16.4

~# echo 'package "ntp"' > /tmp/test.rb && chef-apply /tmp/test.rb
Recipe: (chef-apply cookbook)::(chef-apply recipe)
  * package[ntp] action install
    - install version 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.1 of package ntp

All we can say about this issue :

• package ressource seems to have a dependency to a specific (en) locale in Chef 12 (for some output parsing i guess)
• It affects Ubuntu (debian & OS based on yum not tested yet)
• It affects both VM (Vagrant, ...) and bare metal servers
• Same behaviour with Ubuntu 14.04 and more
• This was not blocking in Chef 11 and less.

So is it possible to support non-EN locale or create a workaround to force EN locale inside Chef ?
It would be great for all Chefs around the world.

Thanks for all !

[brauliobo]

any workaround for this?

[brauliobo]

Workarounded with:

  # avoid problems with locales on chef
  # workaround https://github.com/opscode/chef/issues/2695
  ENV['LANG'] = 'en_US.UTF-8'
  ENV['LANGUAGE'] = ENV['LANG']
  ENV['LC_ALL'] = ENV['LANG']

on solo.rb

[lamont-granquist]

looks like LANGUAGE has priority over even LC_ALL