Bug#584417: pulseaudio: missing localisation file for English language (en)

Ben Finney ben+debian at benfinney.id.au
Thu Jun 3 12:08:59 UTC 2010 

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.21-1
Severity: important

The localisation file for the English language is not installed, but
Pulseaudio is looking for it. On this host, the program look at
‘/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo’ and
‘/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo’, and fails because
neither file exists.

Many other localisation files are installed by the package, so I can
only conclude the English language version was omitted for some
reason. The daemon refuses to start in an English-language locale
without it.

Here is a session showing the problem:

=====
Script started on Thu 03 Jun 2010 21:54:49 EST

$ pulseaudio --daemon
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.

$ strace pulseaudio --daemon 2>&1 | tail
read(4, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0xb7899000, 4096)                = 0
open("/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfb6f2b8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
write(2, "E: main.c: Daemon startup failed"..., 34E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
) = 34
close(3)                                = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?

$ ls /usr/share/locale/en*/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
ls: cannot access /usr/share/locale/en*/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo: No such file or directory

$ dpkg --listfiles pulseaudio | grep 'pulseaudio\.mo'
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr at latin/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo

$ dpkg --listfiles pulseaudio | grep 'pulseaudio\.mo' | grep en

$ exit

Script done on Thu 03 Jun 2010 21:57:07 EST
=====


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                    0.4.1-4    framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                    1.0.22-2   shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0                   0.3-1      Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-9   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                       1:2.17-2   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3                      1.8.3-9    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7                      2.2.6b-2   A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.21-1   PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.7-3    Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.21-2   Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-1  The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libudev0                      154-1      libudev shared library
ii  libwrap0                      7.6.q-18   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.1.0-2  X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          154-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.22-1  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.22-1   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.21-1   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.21-1   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman                         0.9.4-1    PulseAudio Manager
ii  paprefs                       0.9.9-2    PulseAudio Preferences
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.9-1    PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter                     0.9.3-1    PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.21-1   Command line tools for the PulseAu

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf changed:
daemonize = yes
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no
; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11
; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5
exit-idle-time = -1
; scache-idle-time = 20
; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)
; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = 
log-target = auto
log-level = debug
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0
; resample-method = speex-float-3
; enable-remixing = yes
; enable-lfe-remixing = no
; flat-volumes = yes
; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 1000000
; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
; default-sample-channels = 2
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25

/etc/pulse/default.pa changed:
.nofail
load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
.fail
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
load-module module-alsa-sink device=plug:hw:0 sink_name=output
load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:0 source_name=input
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
load-module module-detect
.endif
.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1
load-module module-zeroconf-publish
.ifexists module-gconf.so
.nofail
load-module module-gconf
.fail
.endif
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-rescue-streams
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
load-module module-console-kit
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-cork-music-on-phone
set-default-sink output
set-default-source input

/etc/pulse/system.pa changed:
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-alsa-sink device=plug:hw:0 sink_name=output
load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:0 source_name=input
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
load-module module-detect
.endif
.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
load-module module-zeroconf-publish
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-rescue-streams
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
load-module module-console-kit
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-cork-music-on-phone
set-default-sink output
set-default-source input


-- no debconf information

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