Bug#546617: locales: Can't set default system locale

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 07:43:37PM +0300, Rimvydas wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have problems with setting default system locale. When I do dpkg-reconfigure locales, choose my 
> locales and set my default locale to be en_US.UTF-8 I can see the following output:
> 
> omega:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
> Generating locales (this might take a while)...
>   en_US.UTF-8... done
>   en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
>   lt_LT.UTF-8... done
>   lt_LT.ISO-8859-13... done
>   ru_RU.ISO-8859-5... done
>   ru_RU.CP1251... done
>   ru_RU.KOI8-R... done
>   ru_RU.UTF-8... done
> Generation complete.
> omega:~# locale
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> 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=
> 
> 
> I can swear that I was able to change locales in the past.
> 

You need to logout and login to get the new default locale applied.
Could you please also send the contents of /etc/default/locale ?

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