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ning

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[Solve]locale -a Error

[ning@courser etc]$ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory

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any thought here?

Last edited by ning (2008-12-18 16:24:34)

syntaxerrormmm

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

any thought here?

Have a look on /etc/locale.gen (IIRC) then launch locale-gen. More info viewing the man pages.

HTH

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ning

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

can anyone make a further explain it?

kaola_linux

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

Maybe that would help...:)

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ning

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

doesn't work..

syntaxerrormmm

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

Try reinstalling glibc, then regenerate the locales required as you already learned to do.

BTW, what is your locale (you see it in /etc/rc.conf, IIRC)?

HTH

Last edited by syntaxerrormmm (2008-12-15 17:39:06)

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

Paste the complete output of 'locale' and 'locale -a' here, along with the LOCALE line in rc.conf

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ning

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"                         ( locale in rc.conf)

======                                           (locale)
[ning@courser ~]$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
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=
[ning@courser ~]$

=====================                                    (locale -a)
[ning@courser ~]$ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX

syntaxerrormmm

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"                         ( locale in rc.conf)

Mmh.

/etc/locale.gen
This file contains a list of all supported locales and charsets available to you. When choosing a LOCALE in your /etc/rc.conf or when starting a program, it is required to uncomment the respective locale in this file, to make a "compiled" version available to the system, and run the locale-gen command as root to generate all uncommented locales and put them in their place afterwards. You should uncomment all locales you intend to use.

During the installation process, you do not need to run locale-gen manually, this will be taken care of automatically after saving your changes to this file.

By default, all locales are commented out, including the default en_US.utf8 locale referred to in the /etc/rc.conf file. To make your system work smoothly, you must edit this file and uncomment at least the one locale you're using in your rc.conf.

And I shall add, then regenerate the locales with

# locale-gen

HTH

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monstermudder78

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Re: [Solve]locale -a Error

For some reason I just had to go through the process of generating my locales this morning, after months of having them generated and working.  Not sure if it was the result of something I did manually or a pacman message that I missed, but thought it was odd.