On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 07:04:39AM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:12:22PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > What do these error messages try to tell me: > > > > -- > > [FvwmButtons][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: ERROR -- Cannot set locale. Please > > check your $LC_CTYPE or $LANG. > > [FvwmPager][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: ERROR -- Cannot set locale. Please > > check your $LC_CTYPE or $LANG. > > Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged > > [FvwmPager][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: ERROR -- Cannot set locale. Please > > check your $LC_CTYPE or $LANG. > > [FvwmIconMan][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: ERROR -- Cannot set locale. Please > > check your $LC_CTYPE or $LANG. > > Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged > > -- > > > > This is what I have set: > > > > $ locale > > LANG=C > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It means that the libc function setlocale return a NULL pointer > when it is call as setlocale(LC_TYPE, ""). My libc manual says that: > > - Passing "" means to read the appropriate environment variable and use > its value to select the locale for LC_CTYPE. > - If you specify an invalid locale name, `setlocale' returns a null > pointer and leaves the current locale unchanged. > > So it seems to me that the locale [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not supported by > your libc. This seems strange and IMHO your system is miss-configured. > Maybe your locale definitions of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (found somewhere > under (/usr/share/locale/) is incomplete or does not match your libc. > Maybe you have upgraded your libc without upgrading your locales > (or inversely).
Sigh! Today the error message is gone without changing anything. Might the setlocale function just throw random results from time to time? Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
