Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificate - locale problem

[Jarry]

On 13-Dec-11 18:09, Pandu Poluan wrote:

>> I just tried to update my system but emerging app-misc/ca-certificate
>> failed with this error:
>> -------------------
>>  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 178, in
>> _unicode_encode
>>    s = s.encode(encoding, errors)
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u011f' in
>> position 68: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> >>> Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificates-20111025, Log file:
>>
>>  * This package installs one or more file names containing characters
>> that
>>  * do not match your current locale settings. The current setting for
>>  * filesystem encoding is 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'.
>>
>>  * For best results, UTF-8 encoding is recommended. See the Gentoo Linux
>>  * Localization Guide for instructions about how to configure your
>>  * locale for UTF-8 encoding:
>>  *
>>  * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
>> -------------------
>>
>> I did not have any /etc/env.d/02locale file, so I created
>> one with LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" in it, but I still get the same
>> error. I tried en_US.UTF-8 or en_EN.UTF-8 with the same
>> results. I really do not understand what ca-certificates
>> needs to get it installed...
>
> Have you tried locale-gen and env-update ?

Bingo, this solved my problem! I did locale-gen but I forgot
to run "env-update && source /etc/profile". I always thought
log-off/log-in updates enviromnent too. It is actually true,
but for user, not system-wide...

Jarry

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