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jmannonpdx

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Registered: 2018-05-29

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[SOLVED] Locale errors after using pacman -Syu

I guess some kind of configuration got messed up when running pacman -Syu yesterday.  Today I booted up and tried to start my postgresql server and came across some errors.

$ sudo systemctl start postgresql.service
Starting PostgreSQL database server...

2018-10-17 12:09:46.842 EDT [3025] LOG:  invalid value for parameter "lc_messages": "en_US.UTF-8"
2018-10-17 12:09:46.842 EDT [3025] LOG:  invalid value for parameter "lc_monetary": "en_US.UTF-8"
2018-10-17 12:09:46.842 EDT [3025] LOG:  invalid value for parameter "lc_numeric": "en_US.UTF-8"
2018-10-17 12:09:46.842 EDT [3025] LOG:  invalid value for parameter "lc_time": "en_US.UTF-8"
2018-10-17 12:09:46.842 EDT [3025] FATAL:  configuration file "/var/lib/postgres/data/postgresql.conf" contains errors

This is what I get when I enter $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.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=en_US.UTF-8

And this is what I get when I enter $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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POSIX

Does anyone know how to fix this so I can get postgresql running agian?

Last edited by jmannonpdx (2018-10-17 17:04:00)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale errors after using pacman -Syu

I'm assuming glibc was updated? It appears there was a problem generating locales. Go through that process again.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: [SOLVED] Locale errors after using pacman -Syu

When glibc gets updated it also regenerates your locales, based on the information in /etc/locale.gen Did you ever comment the en_US.UTF-8 again or replace the file with the default or similar? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ng_locales

Also in general last pacman -Syu is something different for everyone and useless for debug information, check what got updated post the transaction information from your pacman.log in doubt.

jmannonpdx

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Registered: 2018-05-29

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] Locale errors after using pacman -Syu

When glibc gets updated it also regenerates your locales, based on the information in /etc/locale.gen Did you ever comment the en_US.UTF-8 again or replace the file with the default or similar? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ng_locales

Also in general last pacman -Syu is something different for everyone and useless for debug information, check what got updated post the transaction information from your pacman.log in doubt.

Thanks! removing the comment in /etc/locale.gen did the trick. Did upgrading glibc add the comment back?

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale errors after using pacman -Syu

Did upgrading glibc add the comment back?

No, the glibc package has that file in it's backup array, so pacman will install the file as a pacnew if you have made any changes to the file on the filesystem.

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