Strange trailing text from snap login in en_GB locale

snapd
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⟫ snap version
snap    2.26.14
snapd   2.26.14
series  16
ubuntu  17.04
kernel  4.10.0-28-generic
⟫ snap login
E-mail address: redacted@redacted.com
Password of "redacted@redacted.com":amp>

Running under strace to make sure I’m not insane, I see:

write(1, "Password of \"redacted@redact"..., 46Password of "redacted@redacted.com":amp> ) = 46

Looking at cmd_login.go, it seems that i18n might be involved, let’s try with Simplified English:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 snap login
Email address: redacted@redacted.com
Password of "redacted@redacted.com":
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Could you

sudo strace -D -f -vv -e stat -- snap login

so we see where it’s loading the translations from?

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[pid  5869] stat("/snap/core/current/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/snappy.mo", 0xc820072ed8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5869] stat("/snap/core/current/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/snappy.mo", 0xc820072fa8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  5869] stat("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/snappy.mo", {st_dev=makedev(8, 1), st_ino=5148066, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=16, st_size=4422, st_atime=2017/08/01-09:21:40.762973099, st_mtime=2017/04/10-17:17:46, st_ctime=2017/04/24-09:34:29.654644306}) = 0
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guess what my next question is :slight_smile:

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⟫ dpkg -S /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/snappy.mo
language-pack-en-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/snappy.mo
⟫ apt policy language-pack-en-base
language-pack-en-base:
  Installed: 1:17.04+20170404
  Candidate: 1:17.04+20170404
  Version table:
 *** 1:17.04+20170404 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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you win one internet points :smiley:

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Digging into this some more, it seems like https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/+source/snapd/+pots/snappy/en_GB/152/+translate is a bit screwy

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I see this too, I didn’t relate it to the locale at that time though, only showed the weird behavior to @mvo while at the previous sprint we both had attended.

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Out of interest, @sergiusens what locale were you using at the time?

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Same as you, the proper English locale :wink:

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I filed #1707908 for the snapd side of this issue

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We’ve just deployed a Launchpad fix to correctly handle the invalid format string from snapd’s translation template. Existing bad translations will need to be manually fixed, since we can’t reasonably repair them automatically.

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Which, for the record, I did on https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/+source/snapd/+pots/snappy/en_GB/152/+translate

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