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Sushi_Samurai

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Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

Hello, I'm very new to using arch and I've been trying to get Minecraft setup but I'm running into issues.

When I first installed it, the launcher would not even start, then I tried:

 LC_ALL=C minecraft-launcher  

As I had seen this work on forms. The command worked once, I was able to get into the game a play for a bit. But now if I try to start it again using that command I get the following:

 [4363:4363:0315/183813.250977:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.kde.KWallet.isEnabled: object_path= /modules/kwalletd6: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Remote peer disconnected
[4363:4363:0315/183813.251006:ERROR:kwallet_dbus.cc(112)] Error contacting kwalletd6 (isEnabled)
[4363:4363:0315/183813.251093:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.kde.KLauncher.start_service_by_desktop_name: object_path= /KLauncher: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
[4363:4363:0315/183813.251102:ERROR:kwallet_dbus.cc(81)] Error contacting klauncher to start kwalletd6
[4363:4363:0315/183813.376018:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.kde.KWallet.close: object_path= /modules/kwalletd6: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Remote peer disconnected
[4363:4363:0315/183813.376039:ERROR:kwallet_dbus.cc(502)] Error contacting kwalletd6 (close)
sh: line 1: orca: command not found
Created browser window for reuse: 0x1400004
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.

I think just this section is the issue:

Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.

But I'm sort of at a dead end.

I've tried looking for more info for this issue but can't find anything that helps. Any tips/guidance would be wonderful!

Thanks

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

What is the output of `locale` and `locale -a`?

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 477

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

Sushi_Samurai

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Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

Locale:

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

Locale -a:

C
C.utf8
POSIX
en_US.utf8

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,725

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

So somewhere you're specifically setting a bunch of things to C.UTF-8. Start by checking /etc/locale.conf, then grep your home dir, unless you actually want that for some reason? Anyway, stop setting LC_ALL.

pulse7013

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Registered: 2025-01-04

Posts: 5

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

[4363:4363:0315/183813.251006:ERROR:kwallet_dbus.cc(112)] Error contacting kwalletd6 (isEnabled)

Try to Disable kwalletd6 Manager daemon or give it Permission path /modules/kwalletd6

Sushi_Samurai

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Registered: 2025-03-16

Posts: 16

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

My locale.conf only has "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" as an option.

What should I look for with grep?

I was able to fix the kwallet issue, thanks!

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 477

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

My locale.conf only has "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" as an option.

What should I look for with grep?

I was able to fix the kwallet issue, thanks!

AGAIN: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

You need to read! your solution is in there

Sushi_Samurai

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Posts: 16

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

AGAIN: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

You need to read! your solution is in there

I appreciate the link, but bit of constructive criticism; linking a full wiki page and telling someone to "read!" is extraordinarily unhelpful, especially to a new-to-linux user.

mackin_cheese

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Posts: 477

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

AGAIN: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

You need to read! your solution is in there

I appreciate the link, but bit of constructive criticism; linking a full wiki page and telling someone to "read!" is extraordinarily unhelpful, especially to a new-to-linux user.

If you are a beginner and want to use Arch, you must be willing to invest time into learning a new system, and accept that Arch is designed as a 'do-it-yourself' distribution; it is the user who assembles the system.

Before asking for help, do your own independent research by searching the Web, the forum and the superb documentation provided by the Arch Wiki. There is a reason these resources were made available to you in the first place. Many thousands of volunteered hours have been spent compiling this excellent information.

Now when it comes to providing help, I personally don't say what the answer is, I either ask users questions that will lead them to that answer or I will point to them the reference page that has the answer.

The page I linked has a troubleshooting section, A quick skim through of that page would have brought you to that troubleshooting section and right to the issue that you are having. If you can't bother to read the documentation, you're gonna have a bad time with Arch Linux.

Last edited by mackin_cheese (2025-03-18 00:12:52)

Sushi_Samurai

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Registered: 2025-03-16

Posts: 16

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

AGAIN: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

You need to read! your solution is in there

I appreciate the link, but bit of constructive criticism; linking a full wiki page and telling someone to "read!" is extraordinarily unhelpful, especially to a new-to-linux user.

If you are a beginner and want to use Arch, you must be willing to invest time into learning a new system, and accept that Arch is designed as a 'do-it-yourself' distribution; it is the user who assembles the system.

Before asking for help, do your own independent research by searching the Web, the forum and the superb documentation provided by the Arch Wiki. There is a reason these resources were made available to you in the first place. Many thousands of volunteered hours have been spent compiling this excellent information.

Now when it comes to providing help, I personally don't say what the answer is, I either ask users questions that will lead them to that answer or I will point to them the reference page that has the answer.

The page I linked has a troubleshooting section, A quick skim through of that page would have brought you to that troubleshooting section and right to the issue that you are having. If you can't bother to read the documentation, you're gonna have a bad time with Arch Linux.

BTW I did research before I asked the question, I looked up the errors I was getting and read literally every forum post with similar problems, that's why I reached out to this forum. To "help" people by telling them to read a manual without the requisite knowledge to understand the steps and info in that manual is unhelpful. I appreciate you taking time to answer questions on forums. I see you have a lot of posts here, but half of your answers equate to "Learn more before you ask for help." You could have mentioned with section of the article you believe would help with my issue, instead of linking the whole wiki page. I'm sorry to be aggressive on my first post, but every time I read a forum and someone gives the 'read the manual' answer, I wince. It's insulting and not helpful.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 477

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

I appreciate the link, but bit of constructive criticism; linking a full wiki page and telling someone to "read!" is extraordinarily unhelpful, especially to a new-to-linux user.

If you are a beginner and want to use Arch, you must be willing to invest time into learning a new system, and accept that Arch is designed as a 'do-it-yourself' distribution; it is the user who assembles the system.

Before asking for help, do your own independent research by searching the Web, the forum and the superb documentation provided by the Arch Wiki. There is a reason these resources were made available to you in the first place. Many thousands of volunteered hours have been spent compiling this excellent information.

Now when it comes to providing help, I personally don't say what the answer is, I either ask users questions that will lead them to that answer or I will point to them the reference page that has the answer.

The page I linked has a troubleshooting section, A quick skim through of that page would have brought you to that troubleshooting section and right to the issue that you are having. If you can't bother to read the documentation, you're gonna have a bad time with Arch Linux.

BTW I did research before I asked the question, I looked up the errors I was getting and read literally every forum post with similar problems, that's why I reached out to this forum. To "help" people by telling them to read a manual without the requisite knowledge to understand the steps and info in that manual is unhelpful. I appreciate you taking time to answer questions on forums. I see you have a lot of posts here, but half of your answers equate to "Learn more before you ask for help." You could have mentioned with section of the article you believe would help with my issue, instead of linking the whole wiki page. I'm sorry to be aggressive on my first post, but every time I read a forum and someone gives the 'read the manual' answer, I wince. It's insulting and not helpful.

it's in alignment with the philosophy of Arch Linux. Arch Linux is not user-friendly, it's user centric. The first two paragraphs i stated in the previous comment is an official statement by Arch Linux. Since you stated you already did the research but couldn't find it, i'll give you a freebie: 

the section is 4.1. If you are using gnome you have to check the language settings. If you are using KDE you have to delete the following file

 ~/.config/plasma-localerc 

reboot and then check your locale settings again

Sushi_Samurai

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Registered: 2025-03-16

Posts: 16

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

Sorry for my tone last night, I was frustrated and took it out on you.

I had already deleted the plasma locale file and it hadn't changed.

Both the locale.conf and plasma-localerc files only have "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" as an argument. But the "locale" command still gives me

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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=

I can't seem to find where its pulling this info from.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 477

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

Sorry for my tone last night, I was frustrated and took it out on you.

I had already deleted the plasma locale file and it hadn't changed.

Both the locale.conf and plasma-localerc files only have "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" as an argument. But the "locale" command still gives me

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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=

I can't seem to find where its pulling this info from.

That locale looks right to me, see if you run into the minecraft issue now and we go from there

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,164

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

FWIW, minecraft-launcher started dying on me a few days ago as well with no obvious rhyme or reason (and I know my locale is setup correctly). I opted to just switch to prismlauncher which is in the repos even and can hence ignore whatever the problem with minecraft-launcher is.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 477

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

FWIW, minecraft-launcher started dying on me a few days ago as well with no obvious rhyme or reason (and I know my locale is setup correctly). I opted to just switch to prismlauncher which is in the repos even and can hence ignore whatever the problem with minecraft-launcher is.

well crap, it's happening to v1del then this may be a bigger issue,  i'm going to try to replicate this.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

I'm assuming some setting in the user local conf got hosed "somehow" and one could probably delete some file or so and let it regen, but I don't play minecraft enough to really care about it and I knew prismlauncher existed and that worked fine for me so far.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 477

Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

I'm assuming some setting in the user local conf got hosed "somehow" and one could probably delete some file or so and let it regen, but I don't play minecraft enough to really care about it and I knew prismlauncher existed and that worked fine for me so far.

ah okay lol yeah i'm not able to reproduce this error (why am i said about not reproducing an error)

Sushi_Samurai

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Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

If I delete the .minecraft folder it opens and I can play normally, but the moment I close and try to re-open it breaks. So its currently one-time only.

Sushi_Samurai

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Re: Minecraft launcher failing to start due to locale issue

I switched to prism launcher and have had no issues. You can close this thread if that's how things work.