Package: locales Version: 2.3.5-8 Severity: normal
During a major upgrade, I got skads of errors like <quote> perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_NO:en_US:en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). </quote> and eventually tracked the problem to /etc/environment I commented out its contents but some later package activity over-wrote it, with the bogus values complained about above; and dpkg -S /etc/environment said "not found", making it a bit tricky to work out which of the many recently changed packages was responsible. Presumably the bogus settings reported above were due to the prior content of /etc/environment (hence my shell's environment when I was running the update), supplied by the colleague who originally set up my new machine for me (minimally, and on sarge: I was updating to etch and installing what I need for my work). So I can understand how the installed set of locales might be out of sync with the environment for the rest of the update: however, whatever was re-generating the file was storing in it the bogus values from my shell's environment, rather than values consistent with the configuration changes it'd made that made that environment bogus. Educated guess-work prompted me to dpkg-reconfigure locales (after first deleting /etc/config and logging out and back in, to purge its cruft from my environment) and discover that it created the file. However, the re-generated file just sets LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, which is in accord with the settings I actually specified. Experimentally, I re-tried the reconfigure with LANGUAGE=bogus set in my environment and it made no difference. So perhaps the bogus version of this file is getting written by something else than locales: perhaps other packages also frob this file, I can't know. There is no comment in the file saying "see /usr/share/doc/"wherever to tell me what package is responsible for writing what entries to this file; and my experiments suggest that locales isn't actually the culprit; nor do I find anything in /usr/share/doc/locales that helps me to work out what should be in this file or what might be messing it up. So, in brief: * something is writing bogus data to this file, incompatible with the locales actually supported, * there is no way (aside from guess-work) for the victim of such gibberish to discover anything about the file other than that it's broken. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.67 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.5-3] 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an locales recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * locales/default_environment_locale: en_GB.UTF-8 * locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_GB ISO-8859-1, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_US ISO-8859-1, nb_NO ISO-8859-1, nb_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8, nn_NO ISO-8859-1, nn_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]