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joeelmex

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Registered: 2011-03-10

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Arch issues I am having and it could be a locale problem?? Maybe

Everything is about done and running very well but I do have 2 issues that I cant get resolve and I am sure I just made a minor screw up somewhere.  Here are my 2 minor issues but they are bugging me,

When I load up VLC I get the following on a terminal

(process:1737): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale." 

I also bought a game Jets and guns and when I run it I get the following error on terminal

 "Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" 

Now here is the kicker, if I run the game in sudo, no errors at all and runs like it suppose too.

I have done the the locale-gen wiki and get the same result.

I know the issues are related to each other and I cant pin point the problem.  thank for any help!

Last edited by joeelmex (2011-03-10 03:46:23)

joeelmex

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Re: Arch issues I am having and it could be a locale problem?? Maybe

Found also that in open office, I dont see the english dictionary.  I have checked to see if its available.  Any help please?

ngoonee

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Re: Arch issues I am having and it could be a locale problem?? Maybe

You should read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post first

Here, you're asking multiple questions in the same thread and your topic title is non-descriptive.

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jtkiv

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Re: Arch issues I am having and it could be a locale problem?? Maybe

what do you mean by "I don't see the english dictionary"?

you mentioned its a new installation.  if your looking for spell-check you'll need hunspell and it's languages (hunspell-en for english).

might want to look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenOffice (esp. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … g_problems )

joeelmex

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Re: Arch issues I am having and it could be a locale problem?? Maybe

You should read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post first

Here, you're asking multiple questions in the same thread and your topic title is non-descriptive.

Sorry I made more changes to be more descriptive and added code correctly.

Jtkiv, THANK you, that did it, when I followed that same wiki but looks like I forgot to add the -en.  THANKS now to figure out the issue with VLC when its loaded.

Here is my output when I type locale -a

 [joeelmex@R2D2 ~]$ locale -a
C
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
POSIX  

output if I just type locale

 LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Last edited by joeelmex (2011-03-10 03:57:20)

bernarcher

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Re: Arch issues I am having and it could be a locale problem?? Maybe

A shot in the dark, but there is an inconsistency in your locales. The should be all ".utf8" instead of ".UTF-8".
That means, they should match the LANG setting.

Best check your setup again. What happens if you (temporarily) force the LC_ settings to .utf8 in a console (bash session) and then start vlc from within this session?

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joeelmex

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Registered: 2011-03-10

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Re: Arch issues I am having and it could be a locale problem?? Maybe

A shot in the dark, but there is an inconsistency in your locales. The should be all ".utf8" instead of ".UTF-8".
That means, they should match the LANG setting.

Best check your setup again. What happens if you (temporarily) force the LC_ settings to .utf8 in a console (bash session) and then start vlc from within this session?

Tried what you told me in terminal this is what I get now;

locale

 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"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

locale -a

 C
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
POSIX

VLC in same terminal

 
(process:2046): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.

I will go trough my main setup and get them to match.  Thanks and I will keep looking for a solution.

I looked at my /etc/locale.gen file and the following is enabled

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  
en_US ISO-8859-1   

Last edited by joeelmex (2011-03-10 15:26:22)