[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#156386: locales: After installation of woody no locales have been generated



Package: locales
Version: 2.2.5-10
Severity: important

During installation of a few systems with woody one error showed up every
time: I chose some locales to generate via debconf (de_DE with different
font encodings and en_GB and en_US and fr_FR typically) and later discovered
that none of them had been generated. This leads to the effect that if one
sets "LANG=deutsch" every time perl is started up it shows the following
warning:

17:28 neunhoef@polaris 0% perl                                             ~
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "deutsch"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Note that "deutsch" is an alias in "/etc/locale.alias" for "de_DE.ISO-8859-1",
which I chose to generate during install.

Perl is just an example, no program can use locales properly. In short:
Localization does not work at all.

After running "dpkg-reconfigure locales" once and again choosing the
correct locales everything works nicely.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux polaris 2.4.18 #3 Fri May 17 17:52:06 CEST 2002 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf        1.0.32         Debian configuration management system
ii  libc6          2.2.5-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
        ^^^ (Provides virtual package glibc-2.2.5-10)

-- 
   //  //   Max Neunhöffer <max.neunhoeffer@math.rwth-aachen.de>
  //  //   Alexianergraben 4-6, 52062 Aachen, Germany
 //  //   Tel.: +49 241 406605 (private) / +49 241 8094550 (institute)
//  //   May the Source be with you!



Reply to: