Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:33:53PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> while i'm at it, another problem to add to the above laundry list:
>
> when ever i read a manpage, it tells me:
>
> (null:) can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>
> is this referrint to the lines
>
> LANG="en"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
>
> which i haven't touched (manually, that is) since my downloading of
> about 125 packages, mostly libraries, to go along with spamassassin?
> :)
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:19:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> okkay, grepped (would that be the past participle?!), and i find an
> executable "man-db.config", which looks promising.
>
> however, upon executing ...
>
> orange:/var/lib/dpkg/info> man-db.config [63,127]
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en"
In what file do you have LC_TIME="en_US"? It doesn't seem to
be propagating to your environment.
To see if this will fix something, try at a shell prompt:
export LC_ALL="en_US"
export LANGUAGE="en"
and run one of those commands that keeps failing.
If the command is fixed, then you have to find a way to
run the file that contains LC_ALL when you start a new
shell (probably run it from your $HOME/.bashrc, or put
the commands directly in your $HOME/.bashrc, or put
them in $HOME/.bash_profile, or something).
(Funny that you have "LANG" set, but man-db.config is looking
for "LANGUAGE". But I'm no big expert on locales either.
That also means I'm only guessing at the values the
env variables must be set to (eg, "en_US", "en", etc.).)
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