[libvirt] [PATCH] Be more clever and verbose about localization-initialization.

[Eric Blake]

On 10/08/2013 01:35 AM, Fuchs, Andreas wrote:
> I'd argue _for_ starting up libvirtd in case of errorous LC_* info. Since it is not a
> user-facing application but a system daemon, I think the impact of wrong language
> is small, but the benefit of having the daemon starting realiably is quite high.

I still think that someone setting up the wrong language is a case of
admin error, and that failing to start is appropriate.  But this issue
just caused a second bugzilla today:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026514

so you aren't the only one to have hit the issue.  However, in reading
that bug, Dan Walsh (now cc'd) apparently didn't even find the stderr
message that tried to alert him to why libvirtd was exiting early.
Whether or not we apply your patch, there's the meta-issue that if
libvirtd under systemd outputs an error to its stderr, where does that
message go and how does an admin find out why libvirtd exited early?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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