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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SNIP warning: setlocale: LC_ALL error
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 03:55:20
Message-Id: 53C89A9E.3010904@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SNIP warning: setlocale: LC_ALL error by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Thursday 17 Jul 2014 22:41:45 Dale wrote:
3 >> Howdy, different rig but similar issue. This is on my main rig now. It
4 >> is AMD64 multilib. I am doing a emerge -e world, which I do from time
5 >> to time. After that got to the point where it is almost done, I started
6 >> getting this:
7 >>
8 >> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
9 >> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
10 >> LANGUAGE = (unset),
11 >> LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF8",
12 >> LANG = "en_US.UTF8"
13 >> are supported and installed on your system.
14 >> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
15 >> sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
16 >>
17 >> and like this:
18 >>
19 >> /bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
20 >>
21 >>>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
22 >> sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
23 >>
24 >> The error seems to vary depending on command run. This is my locale.gen
25 >> file:
26 >>
27 >> LANG="en_US.UTF8"
28 >> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF8"
29 >> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF8"
30 >> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF8"
31 >> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF8"
32 >> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF8"
33 >> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF8"
34 >> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8"
35 >> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8"
36 >> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8"
37 >> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8"
38 >> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8"
39 >>
40 >> I'm on sys-libs/glibc-2.17 right now.
41 >>
42 >> Now riddle me this, why is this popping up all of a sudden? Did
43 >> something change and I missed it? When I google, I find folks with
44 >> settings like mine and it works. Is this something new that just hasn't
45 >> hit everyone yet?
46 >>
47 >> Confused.
48 > /etc/locale.gen ought to show something like:
49 >
50 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
51 >
52 > rather than what you show in your message. /etc/env.d/02locale can show what
53 > you have in your message above, but typically only this is necessary:
54 >
55 > LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
56 >
57 > (In mine I also have: LC_TIME="POSIX" and LC_COLLATE="C", but most users
58 > wouldn't).
59 >
60
61 I got that off a howto somewhere. I think it is a Gentoo one. Anyway,
62 commented all that out and left the one line, ran locale-gen and it
63 seems to have fixed it. Keep in mind, it's been that way for quite a
64 long time. No clue why it decides to moan about it now.
65
66 Thanks.
67
68 Dale
69
70 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] SNIP warning: setlocale: LC_ALL error "Jc García" <jyo.garcia@×××××.com>