Bug#638173: locales-all 2.13-14 breaks locale generation
Le mercredi 17 août 2011 à 14:48 +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:46:25PM +0200, Benjamin wrote:
> > Package: locales-all
> > Version: 2.13-14
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: sid
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some days ago, locales-all got upgraded on my system during a dist-upgrade, and
> > I didn't notice it. After a reboot some time later, I lost my locale
>
> What do you mean by "I lost my locale"? Did you do something special?
I mean that after I rebooted, the current locale was now C and I
couldn't change for another one. Accents and others non-ASCII stuff got
screwed up in many applications.
The only action I took was rebooting some days after upgrading to
2.13-14 (I don't reboot very often), and that caused this “lost” locale.
> > (fr_FR.UTF-8) and dpkg-reconfigure could not generate it back with this
>
> With locales-all, locales are not generated, that's actually the goal of
> locales-all. Which command did you run?
dpkg-reconfigure locales, choose fr_FR.UTF-8, select it as default for
the system. I never meant to install locales-all at first, I don't know
how it stepped in some months ago. The strange thing is that this
problem only happened when upgrading locales-all to 2.13-14: it didn't
cause any problem before.
Anyway, with locales-all (2.13-14) installed, I _couldn't_ get any other
locale than C to work.
> > message:
> >
> > Error: invalid locale settings: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
>
> It means that this locale was not installed on the system.
Well, the purpose of dpkg-reconfigure locales is to generate the local
so that it's “installed” on the system, isn't it?
> > Still, I'm wondering why this package was installed, as I don't seem to need
> > it. I found that:
> >
> > Start-Date: 2011-04-25 12:33:45
> > Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade
> > Install: locales-all:amd64 (2.11.2-13, automatic), lzma:amd64 (4.43-14,
> > automatic)
> > Upgrade: ca-certificates-java:amd64 (20100412, 20110421~nmu1)
> > End-Date: 2011-04-25 12:34:03
> >
> > So, maybe this is rather a bug from ca-certificates-java? I don't really know.
> >
>
> Well I don't get it. As fard as I can see nor ca-certificates-java nor
> its dependencies depends on locales-all.
Me neither.
After a bit of research: #623672 led to version 20110421~nmu1 as a “fix”
which depends on locales-all.
On my machine, ca-certificates-java was upgraded to version 20110426 the
day after 20110421~nmu1 was installed. But locales-all resisted apt-get
autoremove, I suppose. I don't why.
Anyway, this seems to be a transitional problem only, maybe you can
close it.
Thanks for your time, though,
benjamin
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