Re: libc has broken locales.
It is not gnome related, but instead debian-specific, unfortunately
debian does not have libc/glibc in a list of packages, so I submitted it
against gnome-terminal where this problem is being detected.
I've added debian-glibc@lists.debian.org into Cc.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 12:45:38PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote:
> Distribution: Debian lenny/sid
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Severity: major
> Version: GNOME2.18.0 unspecified
> Gnome-Distributor: Debian
> Synopsis: libc has broken locales.
> Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal
> Bugzilla-Component: general
> Bugzilla-Version: unspecified
> Description:
> Description of Problem:
> libc has broken locales.
>
> Steps to reproduce the problem:
>
> $ locale
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or
> directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
> directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
>
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> Password:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> 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_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
> directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locales is broken or not fully installed
>
> $ sudo apt-get remove locales
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package locales is not installed, so not removed
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install locales
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> locales: Depends: glibc-2.5-1 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
>
>
>
> Actual Results:
> Broken locales, which can not be reconfigured and/or generated.
>
> Expected Results:
>
>
> How often does this happen?
> After apr 15 update locales do not work.
>
> Additional Information:
>
> Due to this bug a lot of unrelated problems with utf symbol
> representation happen - like mutt does not show
> symbols correctly.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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