On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 14:28 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > This didn't happen in en_US.UTF-8 for me, but it did happen in > en_AU.UTF-8. I didn't have locale data for en_AU; when I ran > "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and generated some, I suddenly could see the > whole description. This affects all frontends. ... > You particular case is probably due to having screwed up locale data > (run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and enable your locale). However, this > is IMO poor behavior on apt's part -- you'll see the same thing on a > system running in an ASCII locale, for instance. I'll reassign the bug > over there. Ah, I just found that I set LANG=C in ~root/.bashrc so that is likely the issue. I have the en_AU.UTF-8 locale, so removing that from my bashrc fixed the issue for me. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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