I'm runing debian etch, and things worked until recently when I tried to reconfigure locales. Somehow I found myself in a position where I can't reconfigure locales, and snooping online suggests there's no simple solution.
$ 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= My impression is that that en_US.UTF-8 _is_ the default locale for debian, but my changing the default locale from en_US to none does not help. The kind of error messages I get from chron, or when triing to install a package, or when recondiguring locals is: ... Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_US.ISO-8859-1... done Generation complete. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). There seems to be no problem with my system's supporting en_US: $ 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 en_US en_US.iso88591 What does "no such file or directory" refer to? Online searching suggested defining environment variables for LC+CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_COLLATE. The only obviously relevant environment variable I have is: $ printenv ... LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... Should I go ahead and have root insert environment variables such as LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8" into its environment and then run # dpkg-reconfigure locales again? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]