Jira (FACT-353) some facts do not work with locales set

[Kurt Wall (JIRA)]

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Kurt Wall commented on an issue   Re: some facts do not work with locales set Verified in master at SHA=XX. With the default locale, LANG=C, and LANG=de_DE, facter facts appear to work properly. $ be facter | grep mac macaddress => c8:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_bridge0 => ca:e0:eb:41:27:00 macaddress_en0 => c8:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_en2 => 10:dd:b1:d3:d3:55 macaddress_en3 => 32:00:19:d3:94:60 macaddress_en4 => 32:00:19:d3:94:61 macaddress_fw0 => 00:0a:27:02:00:52 macaddress_p2p0 => 0a:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_vmnet1 => 00:50:56:c0:00:01 macaddress_vmnet8 => 00:50:56:c0:00:08 macosx_buildversion => 13D65 macosx_productname => Mac OS X macosx_productversion => 10.9.3 macosx_productversion_major => 10.9 macosx_productversion_minor => 3 sp_machine_model => MacBookPro10,1 sp_machine_name => MacBook Pro $ LANG=C LC_ALL=C be facter | grep mac macaddress => c8:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_bridge0 => ca:e0:eb:41:27:00 macaddress_en0 => c8:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_en2 => 10:dd:b1:d3:d3:55 macaddress_en3 => 32:00:19:d3:94:60 macaddress_en4 => 32:00:19:d3:94:61 macaddress_fw0 => 00:0a:27:02:00:52 macaddress_p2p0 => 0a:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_vmnet1 => 00:50:56:c0:00:01 macaddress_vmnet8 => 00:50:56:c0:00:08 macosx_buildversion => 13D65 macosx_productname => Mac OS X macosx_productversion => 10.9.3 macosx_productversion_major => 10.9 macosx_productversion_minor => 3 sp_machine_model => MacBookPro10,1 sp_machine_name => MacBook Pro $ LANG=de_DE LC_ALL=de_DE be facter | grep mac macaddress => c8:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_bridge0 => ca:e0:eb:41:27:00 macaddress_en0 => c8:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_en2 => 10:dd:b1:d3:d3:55 macaddress_en3 => 32:00:19:d3:94:60 macaddress_en4 => 32:00:19:d3:94:61 macaddress_fw0 => 00:0a:27:02:00:52 macaddress_p2p0 => 0a:e0:eb:14:69:b1 macaddress_vmnet1 => 00:50:56:c0:00:01 macaddress_vmnet8 => 00:50:56:c0:00:08 macosx_buildversion => 13D65 macosx_productname => Mac OS X macosx_productversion => 10.9.3 macosx_productversion_major => 10.9 macosx_productversion_minor => 3 sp_machine_model => MacBookPro10,1 sp_machine_name => MacBook Pro Add Comment   Facter / FACT-353 some facts do not work with locales set facter does not clean locale environment variables prior to executing commands and sometimes falls over the localized output. I'm not sure whether this is relevant for facter being executed by puppet, but it makes debugging a lot harder. For example with the macaddress fact {code} root@mail:~# facter | grep mac Could not retrieve macaddress: undefine... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.