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

[Dale]

Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 09:19:27PM -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>    Howdy,
>>
>>    I looked at that file.  On both my systems, it is not a text file.  When I
>>    look at it in a file manager, Konqueror via fish, it shows up as "GENESIS
>>    rom" for type.  Since it is not text on either of my machines, I'm nervous
>>    about editing that thing.  Are we certain it is safe to mess with???   O_O
> Here's the contents of mine:
>
> ==============BEGIN====================
> # /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your system
> #
> # The format of each line:
> # <locale> <charmap>
> #
> # Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and
> # where <charmap> is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/.
> #
> # All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
> #
> # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file:
> # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
> #
> # Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be automatically
> # rebuilt for you.  After updating this file, you can simply run `locale-gen`
> # yourself instead of re-emerging glibc.
>
> #en_US ISO-8859-1
> en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
> #ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
> #ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8
> #ja_JP EUC-JP
> #en_HK ISO-8859-1
> #en_PH ISO-8859-1
> #de_DE ISO-8859-1
> #de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
> #es_MX ISO-8859-1
> #fa_IR UTF-8
> #fr_FR ISO-8859-1
> #fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15
> #it_IT ISO-8859-1
>
> =================END=================
> Note that I also enable 2 other (en_GB and de_DE) that you probably don't
> need.
>

I thought that should be a text file.  I know I had to edit mine on the
new rig a long time ago but was to chicken to try it.  I opened a weird
file once and made a mess so I didn't want to try that again.  I wonder,
that likely came from the stage3 tarball that way.  Bug maybe??   Some
files I just copied over but some I can't since one is 64 bit and one 32
bit.  Example, parts of make.conf was a serious no on that. 

I'll test this on the old rig first.  ;-)  May even just rename it and
start fresh, just in case. 


>>    This is interesting.  I'm using this version:  3.15.5-gentoo According to
>>    equery, that's as new as it gets.  I thought about going back to a older
>>    version but that seemed odd given the error.  I been dealing with this for
>>    about two days now.  My 3 lb mini sledge is starting to look interesting.
>>    @_@
>>
>>    Thoughts?
> That's interesting: maybe that kernel is too new. Which version of glibc is
> installed right now (It may be helpful to make a guess which kernel version
> should work). Otherwise according to the Changelogs of gentoo-sources and glic
> the kernel version was something around 3.6.x when glibc-2.17 was added to the
> tree.
>
> WKR
> Hinnerk

That's why I decided to just ask.  The version is 2.17.  We have storms
close by so I shutdown the rig but pretty sure it was just a recompile
of the same version.  Once this storm passes, I'll try a newer version. 

Thanks.  Maybe this will get things moving again. 

Dale

:-)  :-)