[IMPALA-532] Impala should tolerate bad locale settings.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Impala 1.1
• Component/s: Backend
• Labels: newbie ramp-up supportability
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Assignee: Pranav Yogi Lodha
• Reporter: Ishaan Joshi
• Created: 13/Aug/13 21:41
• Updated: 07/Jun/23 00:33

Description

Currently, the Statestore does not tolerate a bad locale setting and crashes while starting up.

 USE_DEBUG_BUILD=false
+ perl -pi -e 's#{{CMF_CONF_DIR}}#/var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/2469-impala-STATESTORE#g' /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/2469-impala-STATESTORE/impala-conf/state_store_flags
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
+ '[' -f /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/2469-impala-STATESTORE/impala-conf/.htpasswd ']'
+ chmod 600 /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/2469-impala-STATESTORE/impala-conf/.htpasswd
+ false
+ export IMPALA_BIN=/opt/cloudera/parcels/IMPALA-1.1-1.p0.8/lib/impala/sbin-retail
+ IMPALA_BIN=/opt/cloudera/parcels/IMPALA-1.1-1.p0.8/lib/impala/sbin-retail
+ '[' impalad = statestore ']'
+ '[' statestore = statestore ']'
+ exec /opt/cloudera/parcels/IMPALA-1.1-1.p0.8/lib/impala/../../bin/statestored --flagfile=/var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/2469-impala-STATESTORE/impala-conf/state_store_flags
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

It should fall back to the standard locale ("C"), if the user's locale is messed up.

Issue Links

• is related to: IMPALA-6098 core on parquet select
• relates to: IMPALA-9392 Replace Boost-1.57.0-p3 to Boost-1.61.0.-p2 for aarch64 supporting