Bug#246399: locales: LC_CTYPE defaults to non-installed en_US.UTF8
Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11
Severity: normal
Tags: sarge
On a newly installed sarge system, (4/27/04 i386 businesscard) I get errors
about LC_CTYPE being set to the non-installed locale en_US.UTF-8.
Script started on Wed Apr 28 11:40:57 2004
obfuscate:/home/blarson# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
obfuscate:/home/blarson# locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
obfuscate:/home/blarson# dpkg-c reconfigure locale
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Package `locale' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locale is not installed
obfuscate:/home/blarson# dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
*** edited ***
Generating locales...
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.ISO-8859-15... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
obfuscate:/home/blarson# locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
obfuscate:/home/blarson#
Script done on Wed Apr 28 11:42:23 2004
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11] 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- debconf information excluded
--
Blars Blarson blarson@blars.org
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