Bug#734877: locales: LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo missing
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:28:42PM +0000, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.17-97
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> On a fresh (deboostrap) testing install, I end up with a weird issue.
>
> i18n seems to be mostly working. For instance, the shell is properly localized
>
> # bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> Licence GPLv3+ : GNU GPL version 3 ou ultérieure <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>
> Ceci est un logiciel libre ; vous être libre de le modifier et de le redistribuer.
> Aucune garantie n'est fournie, dans la mesure de ce que la loi autorise.
>
>
> KDE, however, is not, showing in systemconfig that the system have no valid system language.
>
> Trying to understand why, I noticed it tries
>
> open("/usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/fr_FR.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (
> No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No su
> ch file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/fr.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/fr.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> file or directory)
>
> This tells me that the system language setting is properly (fr.UTF-8) set, accordingly to /etc/default/locale
>
> And that's something is fishy with the locales package that is supposed to provide the relevant file:
>
> # dpkg -S /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo
> locales: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo
>
> I tried to regenerate locales doing dpkg-reconfigure locales: no effect.
> Then I dpkg --purge and install of locales package: no effect.
> I did a apt --reinstall install of libc6 package: no effect
>
> I dont know exactly what I should do/try next. Any clues?
Have you checked your filesystem is in a good state? There is no need to
reinstall or to regenerate locales, libc.mo is provided by the locales
packages directly, as your dpkg -S search shows. So if the file is there
but can't be opened by the kernel, I would go for a kernel or a
filesystem issue.
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