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miro279

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Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 153

[SOLVED] DAEMON_LOCALE not working?

I try to get my boot messages in C language and everything in the system german but also messages. So I set in rc.conf:

HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
KEYMAP="de"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
LOCALE=""
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
USECOLOR="yes"

and in /etc/locale.conf

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=C

running locale gives:

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

I also tried to set LOCALE in rc.conf, same result.
which looks good. Still boot messages are in german. Is that a bug? I understand DAEMON_LOCALE="no" should also set those messages to C which is english.

Last edited by miro279 (2012-07-21 10:00:51)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] DAEMON_LOCALE not working?

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144397

tomegun

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From: France

Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 661

Re: [SOLVED] DAEMON_LOCALE not working?

@karol: I finally had a look at this, and it turns out that you were absolutely right. I had messed it up. It is now fixed in git, and will be released to testing sometime this weekend.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] DAEMON_LOCALE not working?

@karol: I finally had a look at this, and it turns out that you were absolutely right. I had messed it up. It is now fixed in git, and will be released to testing sometime this weekend.

I saw the ML post and thought to myself "is it what I think it is?" :-)
Thanks for looking into it.

Last edited by karol (2012-07-21 00:06:48)

tomegun

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From: France

Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 661

Re: [SOLVED] DAEMON_LOCALE not working?

@karol: That's the one: <http://projects.archlinux.org/initscrip … a4094cf1f2>. I hope that fixes it at least ;-) Thanks for the report!

miro279

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Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 153

Re: [SOLVED] DAEMON_LOCALE not working?

Thanks! Removing the lines in /etc/rc.sysinit did the trick.
Concerning the other post:

I guess the best solution would be to let rc.conf/locale.conf apply everywhere (hence deprecating DAEMON_LOCALE), and allow them to be overridden on a per-user basis.

That would be much better in my opinion!

Last edited by miro279 (2012-07-21 10:00:33)

tomegun

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From: France

Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 661

Re: [SOLVED] DAEMON_LOCALE not working?

Thanks! Removing the lines in /etc/rc.sysinit did the trick.
Concerning the other post:

I guess the best solution would be to let rc.conf/locale.conf apply everywhere (hence deprecating DAEMON_LOCALE), and allow them to be overridden on a per-user basis.

That would be much better in my opinion!

Yeah, I'd like to introduce /home/$USER/.config/locale.conf, but just want to make sure to get some other players on board first (systemd, kde, gnome,...). I'd hate for us to diverge on this.