Hello, Le 26-01-2014 20:26, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
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 toreinstall or to regenerate locales, libc.mo is provided by the localespackages directly, as your dpkg -S search shows. So if the file is therebut can't be opened by the kernel, I would go for a kernel or a filesystem issue.
Gosh, it was in fact due to a misconfiguration of localepurge on my part. It was set to keep fr_FR UTF8 but not fr, despite the advice on the dpkg dialog.
It's quite unexpected though that half of the installed software had still the fr.mo stuff and not the other (I would assume that localepurge, on install, will take care of previously installed packages), and I m not completely sure about the logic of not automatically keeping the fr when you pick any of fr_FR/fr_BE/fr_etc if it results on such inconsistent behavior.
Thanks for the input anyway, Regards,