Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-tcl/tcl/request-processor-procs.tcl
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-tcl/tcl/request-processor-procs.tcl,v
diff -u -N -r1.26 -r1.27
--- openacs-4/packages/acs-tcl/tcl/request-processor-procs.tcl	7 Oct 2002 15:05:31 -0000	1.26
+++ openacs-4/packages/acs-tcl/tcl/request-processor-procs.tcl	10 Oct 2002 17:07:43 -0000	1.27
@@ -589,8 +589,18 @@
     # ns_log Notice "OACS= RP end"
 
     # Set locale and language of the request. We need ad_conn user_id to be set at this point
-    ad_conn -set locale [lang::conn::locale]
-    ad_conn -set language [lang::conn::language]
+    if { [catch {
+        ad_conn -set locale [lang::conn::locale]
+        ad_conn -set language [lang::conn::language]
+    }] } {
+        # acs-lang doesn't seem to be installed. Even though it must be installed now,
+        # the problem is that if it isn't, everything breaks. So we wrap it in
+        # a catch, and set locale and language to the empty strings.
+        # This is a temporary work-around until it's reasonably safe
+        # to assume that most people have added acs-lang to their system.
+        ad_conn -set locale ""
+        ad_conn -set language ""
+    }
 
     #####
     #