[pulseaudio-discuss] "Unable to convert error string to locale, filtering." errors

[Sjoerd Venema]

There's a problem in Buildroot's Parted package, and doesn't play well with
libiconv.
So can't test the solution. I'll park it until a next Buildroot release in
which it is patched.

I'll reach out in the future in case it's not resolved by libiconv.

Thanks.

On 1 November 2017 at 13:19, Sjoerd Venema <srg.venema at gmail.com> wrote:

> My Buildroot linux was *not *build with libiconv, but instead with some
> sort of build-in "locale/i8n" support.
> This could be a possible cause. I'm now creating a new system wherein I
> reverse this (with libiconv, without the build-in stuff).
>
> I don't know why that ISO-8859-1 locale is generated, I left most
> Buildroot settings to default concerning locales..
> I have no LANG setting.
>
> I'll report back today if I make it, or in a month ;-) as I'll be away
> from my keyboard for a while.
>
> Thanks,
> Sjoerd
>
> On 1 November 2017 at 10:50, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 18:34 +0100, Sjoerd Venema wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm getting a lot of "Unable to convert error string to locale,
>> filtering."
>> > errors in my /var/log/messages. I think PulseAudio is sending them out
>> as
>> > UTF-8.
>> >
>> > However, my locale -a output contains UTF-8:
>> >  en_US ISO-8859-1
>> >  en_US.UTF-8
>> >
>> > Is it a locale issue? If so, which locale should I add?
>> > Or is it a different kind of problem?
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > Sjoerd Venema
>> >
>> > PS: I'm on a small Buildroot Busybox environment.
>>
>> The error message is printed when trying to convert a system error
>> message string to UTF-8. One possible reason is that PulseAudio is
>> built without iconv support, and a system error message is not valid
>> UTF-8. What is LANG set to? If it's any variant of en_US, it seems
>> unlikely that the strings would contain characters outside the safe
>> ASCII set.
>>
>> If PulseAudio is built with iconv support, then there's apparently some
>> problem with using iconv, but I don't have any guesses about what the
>> exact problem might be.
>>
>> Is it intentional that you have the en_US ISO-8859-1 locale generated?
>> I don't see the point of having anything else than UTF-8 locales.
>>
>> --
>> Tanu
>>
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