Issue Report: Cannot open Library and Settings window after changing interface language to German

[ruff]

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xf77b4430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xf77b4430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xf734392f in raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2 0xf7346ec3 in abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#3 0xf737f475 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#4 0xf7389d72 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#5 0xf738a435 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#6 0xf7525adf in operator delete(void*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#7 0xf7525b2b in operator delete[](void*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#8 0xef5c9256 in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#9 0xef6098f5 in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#10 0xef5fe569 in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#11 0xf527ff78 in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#12 0xf51fc044 in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#13 0xf5232dca in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#14 0xef61680e in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#15 0xf5232bcd in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#16 0xef61680e in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#17 0xf5232bcd in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#18 0xef61680e in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#19 0xf5232bcd in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#20 0xef5ffdba in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#21 0xef60331c in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#22 0xef60e8a5 in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#23 0xf4af695f in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#24 0xf4bb6924 in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#25 0xf4bb77c8 in ?? () from /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so
#26 0x0806599f in RunSteam(int, char**, bool, bool) ()
#27 0x0804f8a7 in main ()
(gdb)

[ruff]

that was crash from Library click.
Calling Settings spawns a window and aborts on the same backtrace (not being able to draw anything on the window). Other threads are mostly in some kind of wait state, either WaitForEvent or pthread_cond_timedwait

[ruff]

After switching back to english in registry.vdf access to abovementioned sections restored.

[Frank]

thanks for the info.

[Bubba HoTep]

ruff,
I'm looking into this particular problem and it's just not reproducing for me. I need to get a some more pieces of information from you:
1/ What version of Linux are you running?
2/ What is your system locale? (i.e. just run locale and paste in the output from that here)
3/ Can you also give me the md5sum of your steamclient.so file? (md5sum ~/.steam/bin/steamclient.so)

Thanks!

[ruff]

Bubba,
I've just reproduced it - set again to German, it asked to restart, restarted, I've clicked to the Library (Bibliothek) and bam!
Although after crash i started it again and it decided to update the client. But even after update behaviour is the same. Anyway here info below.
Thanks
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ruff@box:~$ uname -a
Linux box.ruff.mobi 3.5.0-18-lowlatency #18-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 19 22:17:40 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ruff@box:~$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
ruff@box:~$ md5sum ~/.steam/bin/steamclient.so
99589e78ff1e0355fe23f00309c6cc30 /home/ruff/.steam/bin/steamclient.so
ruff@box:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) \n \l

ruff@box:~$

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[ruff]

P.S.
called g_object_unref() on an object that had only a floating
reference; the initial floating reference is not owned by anyone
and must be removed with g_object_ref_sink().
System startup time: 16,38 seconds
*** glibc detected *** /home/ruff/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x0cb5dd70 ***

[Bubba HoTep]

We had a bug with rendering accents on capital letters... We fixed this in the release we did last night. Can you update Steam and see if this still occurs?

[ruff]

Thanks guys, works perfectly well now. Let me roam through all windows, but I'm sure it gone once root cause fixed.