Solaris Volume Manager metassist Command Fails in Non-English Locales (5067097) (Solaris 9 9/05 Release Notes)

Solaris 9 9/05 Release Notes

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Solaris Volume Manager `metassist` Command Fails in Non-English Locales (5067097)

In non-English locales, the Solaris Volume Manager metassist command fails to create volumes. For example, if LANG is set to ja (Japanese), the following error message is displayed:

xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant : input not UTF-8 
Syntax of value for attribute read on mirror is not valid 
Value "XXXXXX"(unknown word) for attribute read on mirror is not among the 
enumerated set 
Syntax of value for attribute write on mirror is not valid 
Value "XXXXXX"(Parallel in Japanse) for attribute write on mirror is not 
among the enumerated set 
metassist: XXXXXX(invalid in Japanese) volume-config

Workaround: As superuser, set the LANG variable to LANG=C.

For the Bourne, Korn, and Bash shells, use the following command:

# export LANG=C

For the C shell, use the following command:

# setenv LANG C