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

[Dale]

Howdy,

I'm reinstalling Gentoo on my OLD rig.  It's x86.  I have two issues
which will be seen in the error below.  Sort of hard to miss.  Anyway, I
started with the latest stage3 tarball.  I've got it to where it boots
up and all and am in the process of trying to do a emerge -e system
which will also update everything as well.  My problem is glibc and the
locale settings.  May be a separate issue or related.  Here is the boo
boo. 

localhost linux # emerge -v glibc
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)

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Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/glibc-2.17:2.2  USE="-debug -gd (-hardened)
(-multilib) -nscd -profile (-selinux) -suid -systemtap -vanilla" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-libs/glibc-2.17
>>> Failed to emerge sys-libs/glibc-2.17, Log file:
>>>  '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/temp/build.log'
>>> Jobs: 0 of 1 complete, 1 failed                 Load avg: 0.16,
0.39, 1.44
 * Package:    sys-libs/glibc-2.17
 * Repository: gentoo
 * Maintainer: toolchain@g.o
 * USE:        abi_x86_32 elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86
 * FEATURES:   preserve-libs sandbox
[sys-libs/glibc-2.17] bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change
locale (en_US.UTF8)
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale
(en_US.UTF8)  <<-- This error right here. :-( 
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
make -j3 -s glibc-test
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
make -j3 -s glibc-test
 * Your old kernel is broken.  You need to update it to
 * a newer version as syscall(<bignum>) will break.
 * http://bugs.gentoo.org/279260
 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.17::gentoo failed (setup phase):
 *   keeping your system alive, say thank you
 *
 * Call stack:
 *           ebuild.sh, line  93:  Called pkg_setup
 *   glibc-2.17.ebuild, line 151:  Called eblit-run 'pkg_setup'
 *   glibc-2.17.ebuild, line 137:  Called eblit-glibc-pkg_setup
 *     pkg_setup.eblit, line  75:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                      die "keeping your system alive, say thank you"
 *
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info
'=sys-libs/glibc-2.17::gentoo'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv
'=sys-libs/glibc-2.17::gentoo'`.
 * The complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/temp/die.env'.
 * Working directory: '/usr/lib/portage/pym'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/glibc-2.17'
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
 *
 * The following package has failed to build or install:
 *
 *  (sys-libs/glibc-2.17::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), Log file:
 *   '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/temp/build.log'
 *
localhost linux #


One reason I want to re-emerge glibc, I'm HOPING it will fix the other
LC_ALL error.  I'm pretty sure glibc takes care of that but not 100%
sure.  I checked my main rig for differences in USE flags, multilib is
the only one I see.  It is set on my main rig and doesn't seem to be
available on x86 for obvious reasons. 

If this is not enough info, let me know what you need.  I don't want to
flood with tons of unneeded info when usually that above gives enough of
a hint.  ;-) 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)