Re: LC_MESSAGES set somewhere during gdm login
Hello Bob!
Thanks for your reply and your help!
Bob Proulx wrote on 2012-07-17 00:38:
> Patrick Strasser wrote:
>> Ich have a nagging problem: After loggin in throuh gdm, LC_MESSAGES is
>> set to a locale that is not configured, and I can not find where this
>> happens.
>>
>> I configured (dpkg-reconfigure locales) locales for de_AT.UTF-8 and
>> en_US.UTF-8. Still after logging in with gdm and starting gnome-terminal
>> or xterm LC_MESSAGES is set to de_DE.UTF-8:
>
> Running 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' should be enough. It should set up
> the requested locales. Are you sure you selected the same locale as
> the one you are trying to use?
I want to use de_AT.UTF-8, and that works fine until I login through
gdm. After logging in, LC_MESSAGES and only LC_MESSAGES is set to
de_DE.UTF-8. Note the difference between AT and DE. I did not configure
de_DE.UTF-8, which would be a workaround for the symptom, I'd rather
like to find out where this went wrong.
> You can double check by looking at the /etc/locale.gen file and seeing
> what is listed (uncommented) there.
>
> grep -v '#' /etc/locale.gen
Seems fine:
% grep -v '#' /etc/locale.gen
de_AT.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>> past@localhost ~ % locale
>> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
>> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
>
> If you think you really did select to generate the locale that you
> wish to use then I would suspect some environment problem specific to
> your login session. I would try to isolate it. I suspect there might
> be an environment variable set that is messing with this.
In my understanding that is LC_MESSAGES, that is set to a locale that is
not configured.
> If that does not work then the problem is elsewhere. I would then try
> strace on the command to see what it is doing.
>
> $ strace -v -e trace=file locale
> ...
> open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 5
> ...
>
> Expect to see a lot of ENOENT as it searches looking for both specific
> and general files related to locales. But that should give you a
> place to start.
What I expected:
----------------------
% strace -v -e trace=file locale
execve("/usr/bin/locale", ["locale"], ["LANG=de_AT.UTF-8", "DISPLAY=:0",
"PWD=/home/past", "LOGNAME=past", "GNOME_KEYRING_PID=4727",
"XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm3/auth-fo"..., "COLORTERM=yes",
"VST_PATH=/usr/lib/vst:/usr/local"...,
"DSSI_PATH=/usr/lib/dssi:/usr/loc"..., "GDMSESSION=gnome-fallback",
"GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/past"..., "USERNAME=past",
"GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is"..., "WINDOWPATH=7",
"LC_MEASUREMENT=de_AT.UTF-8", "LC_NUMERIC=de_AT.UTF-8",
"DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome-fallback", "LC_MONETARY=de_AT.UTF-8",
"DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:ab"...,
"LADSPA_PATH=/usr/lib/ladspa:/usr"...,
"XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/"...,
"XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=c495c22ee9234"..., "GDM_LANG=de_DE.utf8",
"SHELL=/bin/zsh", "LC_TIME=de_AT.UTF-8", "WINDOWID=33554437",
"SSH_AGENT_PID=4806", "GTK_MODULES=gtk-vector-screensho"...,
"SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost:"...,
"SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/home/past/.cache/"...,
"PATH=/home/past/CodeSourcery/Sou"..., "TERM=xterm", "HOME=/home/past",
"LV2_PATH=/usr/lib/lv2:/usr/local"..., "USER=past",
"GPG_AGENT_INFO=/home/past/.cache"..., "SHLVL=1",
"OLDPWD=/home/past/.config", "EDITOR=vim", "PAGER=less",
"MAIL=/var/mail/past", "LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36"...,
"LESS_TERMCAP_mb=\33[01;31m", "LESS_TERMCAP_md=\33[01;31m",
"LESS_TERMCAP_me=\33[0m", "LESS_TERMCAP_se=\33[0m",
"LESS_TERMCAP_so=\33[01;44;33m", "LESS_TERMCAP_ue=\33[0m",
"LESS_TERMCAP_us=\33[01;32m", "HISTSIZE=10000000", "SAVEHIST=1000000",
"HISTFILE=/home/past/.zsh_history", "vcs_info_msg_0_=",
"vcs_info_msg_1_=", "LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8", "_=/usr/bin/strace"]) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/de.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/de.utf8/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_AT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
---------------------------------
Still, I don't know where LC_MESSAGES was changed from de_AT.UTF-8 to
de_DE.UTF-8
Regards
Patrick
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Patrick Strasser <patrick dot strasser at tugraz dot at>
Student of Telematics, Graz Univ. of Technology, Austria
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