Bug#193191: locales not working at all - output of "locale -a" empty

[Robert.Siemer@gmx.de]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.1-16

panorama:/home/siemer# dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.
panorama:/home/siemer# locale -a 
C
POSIX
panorama:/home/siemer# grep -v '^#' /etc/locale.gen

de_DE ISO-8859-1
panorama:/home/siemer# locale-gen 
Generating locales...
  de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.
panorama:/home/siemer# locale -a
C
POSIX
panorama:/home/siemer# LANG=de cat nix 
cat: nix: No such file or directory
panorama:/home/siemer# LANG=de gnumeric 

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

...<Ctrl-C>
panorama:/home/siemer# echo $L<tab><tab>
$LINENO     $LINES      $LOGNAME    $LS_COLORS  
panorama:/home/siemer# echo $L<Ctrl-C>
panorama:/home/siemer# locate locale/de | grep -Ei 'libc|gnumeric'
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnumeric.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libcapplet.mo
panorama:/home/siemer# 



I tried already different languages, straced some tools like locale-gen
moved some files around (and back) but still got no clue.

Okay, if it's still unclear where my problem is: locales are not working.
Already "locale -a" is never showing more than "C" and "POSIX". And (as
shown), programs are unable to switch to any locale not show by
"locale -a". "LANG=POSIX gnumeric" does not give any errors. 

panorama:/home/siemer# dpkg -s debconf | grep Version
Version: 1.2.35
panorama:/home/siemer# dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version
Version: 2.3.1-16
panorama:/home/siemer# 
panorama:/home/siemer# uname -a
Linux panorama 2.4.19 #2 Fri Dec 6 00:53:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux


Bye,
	Robert