Bug#183515: marked as done (locales: busted postinst script?)
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From: Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Subject: locales: busted postinst script?
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Package: locales
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I'm seeing the following error message when setting up locales.
Setting up locales (2.3.1-14) ...
Generating locales...
but.may not be well tested. If you change...Try `localedef --help' or `localedef --usage' for more information.
done
you.need to rerun locale-gen....Try `localedef --help' or `localedef --usage' for more information.
done
and.want to continue...Try `localedef --help' or `localedef --usage' for more information.
done
remove.the above line. Otherwise...Try `localedef --help' or `localedef --usage' for more information.
done
use.the command...Try `localedef --help' or `localedef --usage' for more information.
done
since.it...character map `IT' is not ASCII compatible, locale not ISO C compliant
cannot open locale definition file `since': No such file or directory
done
de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
en_GB.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1...
and the rest of the procedure seems to finish correct, the locales I
actually use everyday (ja_JP and en_US.utf-8) seem to work.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux tleepslib 2.4.20 #5 Mon Jan 6 19:31:42 JST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages locales depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.31 Debian configuration management system
ii libc6 2.3.1-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
^^^ (Provides virtual package glibc-2.3.1-14)
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From: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>, 183515-done@bugs.debian.org,
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Subject: Re: Bug#183515: locales: busted postinst script?
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At Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:52:51 +0900,
Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> writes:
>
> Jeff> Heya Stephen, it looks like something did a bad cut&paste
> Jeff> job in your locale.gen file.
>
> Yup. If I care about it, I don't let debconf touch it. Too many of
> the utilities used by debconf absolutely lack error-checking
>
> Jeff> The other possibility that comes to mind is some file system
> Jeff> corruption of some sort.
>
> Unlikely. I've rebooted a couple of times in the last month with
> absolutely clean fscks, and it's an ext2 filesystem so those should be
> pretty reliable. And if you look closely, it's exactly what you'd get
> if somebody used bash's read with a delimiter of comma to split
> comma-separated lines into separate lines, or maybe a perl script.
Well, some program might touch with bash's read, it might be
locale-gen in past.
BTW, did you install "localeconf"? localeconf sometimes has caused
problems with locales. They don't consider locales well and not
communicate with us.
> Jeff> Since we also don't know for certain when this showed up on
> Jeff> your system,
>
> Well, unless it did it this time, it's been over a week already, since
> the deb is dated 2-26 so it must have happened before that.
>
> Jeff> I think we should give this a week to see if other people
> Jeff> show up with this bug, and if not tag it unreproducable and
> Jeff> close it in 6 months. Does that work for you?
>
> You can probably close the locales bug now. I cut it out, reran
> locale-gen, and everything was fine. If I see it again, I'll submit a
> new bug and reference this one.
OK, I close this bug. If this problem is alive in the current
locale-gen, it should be appeared.
> What worries me more, on reflection, is the fact that debconf and dpkg
> and apt and local-gen go barrelling on past the warning/error. One of
> those (likely locale-gen, which currently is a particularly unintelligent
> script that assumes nothing can go wrgn) should catch this.
/etc/locale.gen is a simple format file, so it might be difficult to
detect the wrong format data. However, at least it does not generate
an invalid locale data with wrong locale name...
Regards,
-- gotom
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