Problem with my locale install

woland · 2021-03-21 11:52:54

Hi,
the command
cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo

fails because en\@quot doesn't exist in my case

My locale is es and in my case what does exists is

/usr/share/locale/es
and
/usr/share/locale/es_419

Also the following exist under /usr/share/locale
af be ca.us-ascii de@hebrew en@hebrew es fr hi ja ky ml nl pt si sw ug yo
am be@latin ca@valencia de_CH en@piglatin es_419 fur hr ka lg mn nn pt.us-ascii sk ta uk zh_CN
an bg ckb dz en@quot et ga hu kk locale.alias mr no.us-ascii pt_BR sl te ur zh_HK
ar bn cs el en@shaw eu gd hy km lt ms oc pt_BR.us-ascii sq tg vi zh_TW
as bn_IN cy en@arabic en_CA eu_ES gl ia kn lv my or rm sr th wa zu
ast br da en@boldquot en_GB fa gr id ko mai nb pa ro sr@ije tl wo
az bs de en@cyrillic en_US fi gu is ku mg nds pl ru sr@latin tr xh
bal ca de.us-ascii en@greek eo fo he it kw_GB mk ne ps rw sv tt yi

If I copy /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo to /boot/grub/locale/es.mo

then when I boot I just see strange symbols, Im not sure if this is a problem of the locale or my AMD graphic card (AMD radeon HD 8750M with 2 GB dedicated vram) that is not able to paint things properly in the screen

Just as a clue of what I see when I reboot is a kind of braille text .... quite strange ...

Last edited by woland (2021-03-21 12:17:18)

seth · 2021-03-21 12:44:08

Just as a clue of what I see when I reboot is a kind of braille text .... quite strange ...

Where exactly do you see that?
Bootloader (grub)?
Console (startup messages)?
Desktop? (i3?)

The symptom sounds like you're missing a font and the missing en@quot sounds as if this is the ALARM installation on the raspi?

woland · 2021-03-21 21:09:42

seth wrote:

Just as a clue of what I see when I reboot is a kind of braille text .... quite strange ...
Where exactly do you see that?
Bootloader (grub)?
Console (startup messages)?
Desktop? (i3?)
The symptom sounds like you're missing a font and the missing en@quot sounds as if this is the ALARM installation on the raspi?

I see the kind of braille thing when I boot the arch (after the grub menu which I see properly). So right when it boots. I guess that this is the welcome banner or something but it is not possible to read anything there.
Im installing it on a laptop, not on a raspbi.
What can I do related to the missing en@quot ? my language (keyboard, locale...) is Spanish not English. And what about the font ? I follow the install instructions step by step. So there was something missing in the official install guides ?? How can I solve this ?
What do you mean by i3 ? you meant an intel i3 processor ?
My laptop is an Acer Aspire V5-552G
processor AMD A10 8GB ram
graphic card AMD Radeon™ HD 8750M 2GB ram

Another clue:
I can connect via ssh as a non root user. So I can give commands in this way. Sudo su - works and also sudo + command
When I connect via ssh I see the command line text without any problem.
I did not tried to install any KDE or any other graphical interface yet. id like to install KDE once I solve the issue Im facing now

Last edited by woland (2021-03-21 21:20:08)

seth · 2021-03-21 21:18:17

What's the output of

localectl
locale
locale -a

There's no "welcome banner", there're a bunch of status lines and the the getty prompt.

There's no missing step in the installation guide, /usr/share/locale/en@quot is used by a couple of packages, what's the output of

pacman -Qikk gettext

Or… is this the installed system or the installation iso?
Ideally, post a link to a photo of the semi-braille screen.

woland · 2021-03-21 21:30:37

seth wrote:

What's the output of
localectl
locale
locale -a
There's no "welcome banner", there're a bunch of status lines and the the getty prompt.
There's no missing step in the installation guide, /usr/share/locale/en@quot is used by a couple of packages, what's the output of
pacman -Qikk gettext
Or… is this the installed system or the installation iso?
Ideally, post a link to a photo of the semi-braille screen.

This is kind of poltergeist.
Now that I have booted to try to give your commands, inmeditately after the braille kind of thing I got the arch linux 5.10.24-1-lts banner and asked me for login with normal text.
outputs:
# localectl
system locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
vc keymap: es
x11 layout: n/a

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

$ locale -a
C
es_ES.utf8
POSIX

# pacman -Qikk gettext
Nombre : gettext
Versión : 0.21-1
Descripción : GNU internationalization library
Arquitectura : x86_64
URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
Licencias : GPL
Grupos : base-devel
Provee : Nada
Depende de : gcc-libs acl sh glib2 libunistring libcroco
Dependencias opcionales : git: for autopoint infrastructure updates
Exigido por : base grub
Opcional para : Nada
En conflicto con : Nada
Remplaza a : Nada
Tamaño de la instalación : 7,51 MiB
Encargado : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Fecha de creación : mar 04 ago 2020 09:43:10
Fecha de instalación : dom 21 mar 2021 12:13:09
Motivo de la instalación : Instalado como dependencia de otro paquete
Guion de instalación : No
Validado por : Firma

gettext: 327 archivos totales, 0 archivos alterados

The last thing I made some hours ago was
sudo pacman -S linux-firmware

Could it be that this command fixed it ?

Strange ... since I did not experienced the same problem when I booted the USB to install the arch.

Since I installed the linux-firmware I did not reboot again, so maybe that command installed something related to the graphic card ?? anyways I did not installed any graphical interface ...
Now Id like to install KDE.
Is there any KDE install guide that works as a charm ?
Thanks in advance

woland · 2021-03-21 21:34:09

How could I attach an image? clicking on the img tag I just see that I could insert an image using an URL and I do not have a place to upload the image

seth · 2021-03-21 22:01:56

You have to upload it at some place like imgur and then post the link (w/ or w/o thumbnail, the forum has a 200x200px size rule)
I'm pretty sure it's a GPU thing and there's a chance that linux-firmware fixed it by a firmware update for your GPU.

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … _KMS_start
About KDE, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Installation

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Problem with my locale install

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