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

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 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...
>
> Jarry
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Having set up three Gentoo installs in the last month, and I've seen
this each time.

It's blunt, but a mixture of "emerge -e --keep-going @world",
"shutdown -r now" and "emerge --resume --keep-going" commands clears
it up.


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