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scrawky

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Registered: 2011-09-23

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bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

so i get the bsdtar: failed to set default locale error when using yaourt to install savage-xr

theres another thread about this error and i did what it says in that thread but i still get this error

heres locale.gen

#en_SG ISO-8859-1  
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  
en_US ISO-8859-1  
#en_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8  

heres rc.conf

CONSOLEMAP=
LOCALE="en_us.UTF-8 UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="yes"

ive also tried "en_us.UTF-8" and "en_us.utf8"

also when logging in i get a few bash errors

-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_us.UTF-8 UTF-8) no such file or directory

im thinking the bash error is probably related to my fubared locales

heres what locale -a looks like

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
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

thanks for your time

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

LOCALE="en_us.UTF-8 UTF-8"

That's not a valid locale... scrub the 'UTF-8' from the end.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

See locale -a (or locale.gen) for available options.

If you take it literally, OP's way should work. Does it warrant a bug report for rephrasing the man page?

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

If you take it literally, OP's way should work. Does it warrant a bug report for rephrasing the man page?

## Each line is of the form:
##
##     <locale> <charset>
##
##  where <locale> is one of the locales given in /usr/share/i18n/locales
##  and <charset> is one of the character sets listed in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

Ah, OK, thanks.

magostin

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

I am having the same issue as the OP. I receive the error in the title every time I run 'makepkg'

My locale.gen is:

#es_SV ISO-8859-1  
es_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  
es_US ISO-8859-1  
#es_UY.UTF-8 UTF-8  

rc.conf is

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="yes"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"

output of 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
C
POSIX
es_US
es_US.iso88591
es_US.utf8

output of locale-gen

Generating locales...
  es_US.UTF-8... done
  es_US.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.

Any idea what's wrong?

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

My locale.gen is:

#es_SV ISO-8859-1  
es_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  
es_US ISO-8859-1  
#es_UY.UTF-8 UTF-8  

rc.conf is

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="yes"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"

Any idea what's wrong?

Take a good hard look at the lines you have uncommented in locale.gen. Then look at your LOCALE in rc.conf.

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magostin

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

My locale.gen is:

#es_SV ISO-8859-1  
es_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  
es_US ISO-8859-1  
#es_UY.UTF-8 UTF-8  

rc.conf is

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="yes"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"

Any idea what's wrong?

Take a good hard look at the lines you have uncommented in locale.gen. Then look at your LOCALE in rc.conf.

Ugh ... fixed. Sorry for the noise ....

Aginor

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Posts: 3

Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

Running locale-gen solved this issue for me

jasonwryan

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing

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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale (when installing savage-xr)

Hi Aginor,
Welcome to Arch Linux.  Do be aware of old posts
Two years on, the original participants may not care anymore. 

Your post was relevant, so it is fine.  But, I am going to close the thread now.

Edit: Too late

Last edited by ewaller (2014-04-17 03:45:50)

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