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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificate - locale problem
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:50:16
Message-Id: CA+czFiB+CEPqu81rRgc8RgtGfOtQ7kMrFXsgxWu1nuVGsAmCRw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificate - locale problem by Jarry
1 On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 13-Dec-11 16:56, Michael Mol wrote:
3 >>>
4 >>> I just tried to update my system but emerging app-misc/ca-certificate
5 >>> failed with this error:
6 >>> -------------------
7 >>>  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 178, in
8 >>> _unicode_encode
9 >>>    s = s.encode(encoding, errors)
10 >>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u011f' in
11 >>> position 68: ordinal not in range(128)
12 >>>
13 >>>>>> Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificates-20111025, Log file:
14 >>>
15 >>>
16 >>>  * This package installs one or more file names containing characters
17 >>> that
18 >>>  * do not match your current locale settings. The current setting for
19 >>>  * filesystem encoding is 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'.
20 >>>
21 >>>  * For best results, UTF-8 encoding is recommended. See the Gentoo Linux
22 >>>  * Localization Guide for instructions about how to configure your
23 >>>  * locale for UTF-8 encoding:
24 >>>  *
25 >>>  *      http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
26 >>> -------------------
27 >>>
28 >>> I did not have any /etc/env.d/02locale file, so I created
29 >>> one with LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" in it, but I still get the same
30 >>> error. I tried en_US.UTF-8 or en_EN.UTF-8 with the same
31 >>> results. I really do not understand what ca-certificates
32 >>> needs to get it installed...
33 >>
34 >>
35 >> Having set up three Gentoo installs in the last month, and I've seen
36 >> this each time.
37 >>
38 >> It's blunt, but a mixture of "emerge -e --keep-going @world",
39 >> "shutdown -r now" and "emerge --resume --keep-going" commands clears
40 >> it up.
41 >
42 >
43 > OMG, I have to recompile the whole world to fix it???
44 > This is definitelly not "small" bug if it costs half day
45 > of compilation time...    :-(
46
47 I've only *ever* seen it on fresh installs. An "emerge -e @world" to
48 propagate CFLAGS is usually an early step; I like to do it before I
49 install much more than 'screen' and 'vim'.
50
51 Chances are, it's some smaller thing, like getting locale settings in
52 place before emerging glibc or some fs tools, but I haven't tried
53 tracking it down more deeply.
54
55 --
56 :wq