Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.17 fails and warning: setlocale: LC_ALL error

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 07/16/2014 10:21 AM, Dale wrote:
>> I'm beginning to wonder about
>> those stage3 tarballs for x86.  Do they test those from time to time to
>> make sure they work or do they just autobuild them and upload them?  I'm
>> following the install guide so I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything
>> wrong but at the same time, I don't want to file a bug when it is just me.
> Over the years I remember maybe three times I've had to untar a stage3 on
> top of a "working" system, and IIRC the catastrophic problem was glibc each
> time :/
>
> Anyway, the first time I tried it I learned that the stage3 overwrites the
> existing /etc directory. (That was so painful I remembered to move /etc out
> of the way the next two times it did it :)
>
> I mention all this because /etc/locale.conf may not be the file you expect,
> based on how your compile environment and chroot stuff is configured, etc.
>
> I been there/done that :)
>

I haven't done this on top of a working system tho.  The first tarball
was a fresh install.  The Gentoo that was there hadn't been updated in
like 3 years or so.  I wasn't about to jump in and try to update all
that.  The 2nd time, I just unpacked the tarball in /mnt/gentoo just
like I would a fresh install just that it was in the first install. 

The locale.gen file was untouched from the tarball so it was the wrong
file type when I downloaded it.  No clue on that yet. 

Dale

:-)  :-)