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hully

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Registered: 2022-11-14

Posts: 164

Could not find definition for locale

I have a lot of this entry in my journal:

Nov 18 11:34:24 HOSTNAME plasmashell[317461]:   Could not find definition for W. Europe Standard Time
Nov 18 11:34:24 HOSTNAME plasmashell[317461]: console.error: Calendar:

And some of this as well:

Nov 18 11:34:24 HOSTNAME plasmashell[317461]:   Could not find definition for GMT Standard Time
Nov 18 11:34:24 HOSTNAME plasmashell[317461]: console.error: Calendar:

How can I fix it?

I posted in [KDE forums](https://discuss.kde.org/t/journal-log-c … ell/7480/1) but they suggested me to post here.

I re-did the "locale" section of the Installation guide, still same problem.

If I do:

journalctl --output=json --reverse --boot | jq

It looks like Thunderbird is logging this really?

{
  "__SEQNUM_ID": "ABRIDGED",
  "_HOSTNAME": "ABRIDGED",
  "_AUDIT_LOGINUID": "1000",
  "_AUDIT_SESSION": "3",
  "MESSAGE": "  Could not find definition for W. Europe Standard Time",
  "_PID": "4100",
  "_CMDLINE": "/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird --sm-client-id ABRIDGED",
  "SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER": "ksmserver",
  "__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP": "44579078",
  "_CAP_EFFECTIVE": "0",
  "_SYSTEMD_INVOCATION_ID": "ABRIDGED",
  "_BOOT_ID": "ABRIDGED",
  "_TRANSPORT": "stdout",
  "_MACHINE_ID": "ABRIDGED",
  "_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID": "1000",
  "_UID": "1000",
  "_GID": "1000",
  "PRIORITY": "6",
  "_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT": "app-org.mozilla.Thunderbird-ABRIDGED.scope",
  "__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP": "ABRIDGED",
  "_SYSTEMD_CGROUP": "/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-org.mozilla.Thunderbird-ABRIDGED.scope",
  "_STREAM_ID": "ABRIDGED",
  "_EXE": "/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird",
  "SYSLOG_FACILITY": "3",
  "_SYSTEMD_SLICE": "user-1000.slice",
  "_COMM": "thunderbird",
  "_RUNTIME_SCOPE": "system",
  "_SYSTEMD_UNIT": "user@1000.service",
  "__SEQNUM": "ABRIDGED",
  "__CURSOR": "s=ABRIDGED;i=ABRIDGED;b=ABRIDGED;m=ABRIDGED;t=ABRIDGED;x=ABRIDGED",
  "_SYSTEMD_USER_SLICE": "app.slice"
}

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: Could not find definition for locale

That doesn't appear to be a locale issue, but a timezone issue. What are the outputs of

pacman -Qkk tzdata
stat /etc/localtime
cat ~/.config/plasma-localerc

Last edited by Scimmia (2023-11-19 03:40:29)

hully

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Registered: 2022-11-14

Posts: 164

Re: Could not find definition for locale

➜ pacman -Qkk tzdata
tzdata: 2502 total files, 0 altered files

➜ stat /etc/localtime
  File: /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome
  Size: 31        	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: 0,32	Inode: 50772       Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2023-11-18 16:30:18.055838871 +0100
Modify: 2023-11-10 15:18:09.495153777 +0100
Change: 2023-11-10 15:18:09.495153777 +0100
 Birth: 2023-11-10 15:18:09.495153777 +0100

➜ cat ~/.config/plasma-localerc
cat: /home/USERNAME/.config/plasma-localerc: No such file or directory

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,056

Re: Could not find definition for locale

The thunderbird message rarely shows up, https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1430318 resolved it by recreating the TB profile but depending on what TB does there, this might also be an outfall of your general network issues (eg. if the definition is sought online)

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hully

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Registered: 2022-11-14

Posts: 164

Re: Could not find definition for locale

nah, the internet is working today and that is still happening.

I'll try to recreate the profile, my journal is clogged with those messages.

hully

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Registered: 2022-11-14

Posts: 164

Re: Could not find definition for locale

I've deleted the profile, uninstalled Thunderbird, re-installed it and the error is not showing up now.

I wonder what causes it.

killall -9 thunderbird
sudo pacman -R thunderbird
rm -rf $HOME/.thunderbird
sudo pacman -Syu thunderbird

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,056

Re: Could not find definition for locale

Some stale thunderbird config value or cached extension.
With the profile gone to 0x0, we're probably not gonna figure anymore (otherwise grepping around in or inspecting the calendar relevant parts specifically) it might have hinted at the cause.

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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