Not working on Ubuntu 19.10 ?

[millsoft]

Hi, Installed it with cargo. (my os is 64 bit)
when I do gping somehost I only see the blinking cursor in the top left. Normal ping works.
Also tested it as root / with sudo.
here is a demo video: https://youtu.be/RusyEIyL_K4

[orf]

Would you mind running ping -O -i0.2 google.com and sending me the output here? 5-10 lines will suffice.

[lzivadinovic]

ping -O -i0.2 google.com 
ping: bad timing interval: 0.2

I dont think ping on ubuntu supports decimal timing intervals at all.

tested on 20.04, and gping also shows blank screen, installed via cargo

[enaut]

Same Problem on Fedora 33 installed via cargo black screen, blinking cursor, however I can use decimal timing:

❯ ping -O -i0.2 google.com
PING google.com (172.217.22.206) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 Bytes von muc11s01-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.22.206): icmp_seq=1 ttl=118 Zeit=15.9 ms
64 Bytes von muc11s01-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.22.206): icmp_seq=2 ttl=118 Zeit=15.7 ms
64 Bytes von muc11s01-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.22.206): icmp_seq=3 ttl=118 Zeit=15.4 ms
64 Bytes von muc11s01-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.22.206): icmp_seq=4 ttl=118 Zeit=15.4 ms
64 Bytes von muc11s01-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.22.206): icmp_seq=5 ttl=118 Zeit=15.4 ms
64 Bytes von muc11s01-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.22.206): icmp_seq=6 ttl=118 Zeit=15.9 ms
64 Bytes von muc11s01-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.22.206): icmp_seq=7 ttl=118 Zeit=16.2 ms

[orf]

🤦 I’ve hard-coded English field names in the regex. I’ll push a fix later today, should be simple enough.

Thank you both for sharing the output

[enaut]

Yep thats it the following works:

LANG=C gping google.com

[bitwave]

works

[alecgirman]

Works in WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04

[enaut]

those comments look like it is fixed but it is not for non english languages... #71 (comment) is a workaround.

[irexiz]

LANG=C gping google.com
Doesn't work on ubuntu 20.04 LTS in fish shell

LANG=C ping -O -i0.2 google.com doesn't work either for me, neither in bash nor fish?
ping: bad timing interval: 0.2

[enaut]

@irexiz mhm you could try ping --help - it might be that you have a non-default ping program (I tried with 18.4 which works as intended)

[irexiz]

@enaut I am using iputils ping program, is it not the default?
ping -V
ping from iputils s20190709

[irexiz]

Alright I found the issue :D

My environment is set up to have a decimal delimiter defined as , not . The following works:

ping -O -i0,2 google.com

[orf]

I've come to significantly dislike ping after working on this project 😂. I guess I need to explicitly pass all the locale environment variables to ensure that the output is parsable. Can you possibly try this:

LC_ALL=C LANG=C ping -O -i0.2 google.com and see if that fixes it? I need to find the correct set of variables to pass.

Running localectl status and putting the output here would also help.

[irexiz]

The issue is in pinger crate :) https://github.com/orf/pinger/blob/master/src/linux.rs#L11
Although I don't know if calling it an issue is right. Different LC_NUMERIC cause the problem. I had it set to pl_PL.UTF-8. Changing it locally to en_US.UTF-8 fixes everything.

Edit: With LC_ALL=C LANG=C ping -O -i0.2 google.com, it works as intended even with different LC_NUMERIC env variables

[orf]

Yep, but there are a large number of LC_ variables (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html).

Ok, thanks for the feedback. LC_ALL seems to take precidence, so I'll modify pinger to pass that on UNIX systems. Thanks!

[orf]

Hey all,
Thank you for the feedback here. I've fixed the issue by passing the two environment variables, and I'm releasing 0.1.7 to fix it. It will be on crates.io and homebrew soon, I'd love it if you could test it out and confirm it works 👍

[muuki88]

I can confirm it works on

• Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
• echo $LANG = de_DE.UTF-8

Thanks for the fast fix ❤️

[enaut]

Works on Fedora 33 too