On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:35:53PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > >>Please tell us, because this is a very serious botch-up which makes > >> Debian almost unusable for non-C-locale users. > > > > > >This is obviously not true, since the locale warnings you got were > >merely non-failure-causing warnings, and not the source of the error > >... > > I am sorry, but I do not understand what you mean about "non-failure > causing warnings". I simply cannot set the locale (indeed, cannot > install the locales package successfully) on one of my machines (running > testing).
"just message to screeen only" which does not stop/affect execution of the program. > Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.3.2.ds1-12_all.deb) ... > Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-12) ... > Generating locales... > en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 23102 Killed > localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale > dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 137 > > The bug reports do not contain any information that I can understand, so > any "plain-language" help would be appreciated. > > Regards, Jan Did you try from root shell if locale is problem: ~ # unset LANG ~ # unset LANGUAGE ~ # export LANGUAGE LANG ~ # apt-get upgrade But is this the reason??? As I see... 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 This looks funny, as you posed... /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.desktop', which is also in package openoffice-de-en dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Yep, kdelibs-data has problem here. See http://bugs.debian.org/kdelibs-data Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]