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Naijeru

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From: England

Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 23

[SOLVED] bsdcpio: Failed to set default locale

I'm using the most recent iso to install from.

The first thing I've done is alter /etc/locale.gen to include en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8

I've ran locale-gen as the root livecd user, and locale -a confirms this is present.

I've proceeded to run /arch/setup and gone through it slowly.

My rc.conf file contains the lines

KEYMAP="uk"
LOCALE=en_GB.UTF-8

and I made sure both en_GB lines in /etc/locale.gen part of installation are uncommented too

Yet when I go to "Done" I see a warning saying

bsdcpio: Failed to set default locale

I've done everything right as far as I can tell, is this something I can just ignore for now? Or how can I fix this?

Last edited by Naijeru (2012-09-18 16:28:36)

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: [SOLVED] bsdcpio: Failed to set default locale

I got this error from a snapshot install less than a week ago.  I reran mkinitcpio after doing some poking about, but I don't remember what (if anything) I changed, or if the error repeated.  FWIW, the installation was a success.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] bsdcpio: Failed to set default locale

Please post the output of 'locale' and 'locale -a'.

Naijeru

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From: England

Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] bsdcpio: Failed to set default locale

It installed okay and booted okay.

Anyway, here are the outputs.

[root@*** ~]# locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

and

[root@*** ~]# locale -a
C
en_GB
en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.utf8
ja_JP.utf8
POSIX

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] bsdcpio: Failed to set default locale

Looks good.
Usually such errors mean you haven't properly set things up e.g. you put a non-existing locale (like 'LOCALE=en_UK') in rc.conf.

Naijeru

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From: England

Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] bsdcpio: Failed to set default locale

I think it's just a problem when installing from the CD. It's working though, thankfully. I'll just ignore it then until I see it next.