Re: [gentoo-user] SNIP warning: setlocale: LC_ALL error

[Mick]

On Thursday 17 Jul 2014 22:41:45 Dale wrote:
> Howdy, different rig but similar issue.  This is on my main rig now.  It
> is AMD64 multilib.  I am doing a emerge -e world, which I do from time
> to time.  After that got to the point where it is almost done, I started
> getting this:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>         LANGUAGE = (unset),
>         LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF8",
>         LANG = "en_US.UTF8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
>
> and like this:
>
> /bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
>
> >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>
> sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF8)
>
> The error seems to vary depending on command run.  This is my locale.gen
> file:
>
> LANG="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8"
>
> I'm on sys-libs/glibc-2.17 right now.
>
> Now riddle me this, why is this popping up all of a sudden?  Did
> something change and I missed it?  When I google, I find folks with
> settings like mine and it works.  Is this something new that just hasn't
> hit everyone yet?
>
> Confused.

/etc/locale.gen ought to show something like:

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

rather than what you show in your message.  /etc/env.d/02locale can show what 
you have in your message above, but typically only this is necessary:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

(In mine I also have: LC_TIME="POSIX" and LC_COLLATE="C", but most users 
wouldn't).

-- 
Regards,
Mick