Bug#724456: locales: regeneration of locales by locale-gen breaks programs; should be done in a temporary file
Control: found -1 2.13-38+deb7u7
On 2013-09-24 02:07:39 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The regeneration of all the locales by /usr/sbin/locale-gen is slow,
> so that it sometimes breaks programs. It currently removes the
> /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive file to rebuild it, and until the
> used locales are available, various programs (e.g. executed by cron)
> break.
[...]
This still occurs: on a computation server, glibc was upgraded
yesterday, and one of my programs failed with the following error.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "en_DK",
LC_COLLATE = "POSIX",
LC_CHARMAP = "UTF-8",
LANG = "POSIX"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
and "locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: Too many levels of
symbolic links" in a program started by the Perl script.
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