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saurabhlambe

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Registered: 2017-08-21

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[SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

I didn't correctly install the locale while installing Arch. Now I'm facing constant issues whenever I open the terminal.

bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

I have uncommented the following entry in /etc/locale.gen:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Output of the

locale

command:

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_IN.US-ASCII
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=en_US.UTF-8

In need of some urgent help. I tried DuckDuckGo for solutions, but I found no success.

Last edited by saurabhlambe (2017-10-21 17:27:28)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

Did you remember to run...

locale-gen

after editing locale.gen?

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

What is the output of

locale -a

saurabhlambe

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

I did run

locale-gen

Sharing outputs.

[saurabh@saurabh ~]$ locale-gen
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
Generating locales...
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8...cannot open locale definition file `LANG=en_US': No such file or directory

Output for locale -a:

saurabh@saurabh ~]$ 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

saurabhlambe

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

FYI:

I run this command to remove the locale after some googling and tried to re-install the locale.

sudo rm /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

The entry in locale.gen was NOT "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8". You're confusing locale.conf and locale.gen. You were only supposed to uncomment things in locale.gen, not add.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

Why do you have the line

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

in /etc/locale.gen

What is the contents of /etc/locale.conf.
What guide are you following?
Edit:
added  in /etc/locale.gen to clarify

Last edited by loqs (2017-10-21 16:43:58)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

I run this command to remove the locale after some googling and tried to re-install the locale.

sudo rm /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US

Reinstall glibc to fix the damage caused by deleteing /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US

saurabhlambe

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

Thanks a lot @loqs.

Edited the /etc/locale.gen file and deleted "LANG" from the entry. And run "locale-gen". Seems to be working fine now.

Why do you have the line

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

in /etc/locale.gen

What is the contents of /etc/locale.conf.
What guide are you following?
Edit:
added  in /etc/locale.gen to clarify

Last edited by saurabhlambe (2017-10-21 17:05:34)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

I suspect there is still an issue as the output of locale produced

LANG=en_IN.US-ASCII
....
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Is that LANG setting valid?  Why is it being overruled by LC_ALL?

Last edited by loqs (2017-10-21 17:07:58)

saurabhlambe

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

I'm sorry I didn't get you.

I'll share an output though.

[saurabh@saurabh firefox]$ locale
LANG=en_IN.US-ASCII
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=en_US.UTF-8

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

What is the contents of /etc/locale.conf?

saurabhlambe

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Registered: 2017-08-21

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

"/etc/locale.conf" doesn't exist

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

Installation_guide#Locale
Also find out where LANG=en_IN.US-ASCII and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 is being set.

cfr

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Registered: 2011-11-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Facing issues with locale

You almost certainly want LC_COLLATE to be 'C' and not language/region specific.

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