Perl warning: Setting locale failed

[jthompson]

Ok I've read a thousand posts on this issue. I am having this issue with 64 bit Edgy.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.ISO-8859-15"
    are supported and installed on your system.

This is driving me nuts. I recently grabbed the update to the kernel from the update thingy. I have tried all of the following and nothing works.

/etc/default/locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

/etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

I have tried:

sudo locale-gen
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

I tried the package localeconf


Someone mentioned installing a later packge of locales (like version 2.5). How do you do this? The latest one I see in edgy is 2.3 something.

[Kikoolol]

Hi !

I had the same kind of issue during my upgrade to edgy ... it's really annoying ! You can fix it by setting correctly the locales in the /var/lib/locales/supported.d directory. You should find some files like "en" and/or "local", then just put the extra locales you want in one of it. To finish, run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" !

Hope this helps !

Kkl

[jthompson]

Ok these are what those two files look like:

en

en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15
en_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_IN UTF-8
en_ZW.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_NZ.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_PH.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_SG.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_BW.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_CA.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_IE.UTF-8 UTF-8

local

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15

I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales and I still get the same error. It always seems to happen on things written in perl.

[Kikoolol]

Mine is (local) :

fr_FR ISO-8859-1
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15

Maybe you should try the same with "en" instead of "fr" ? The syntax seems to be different for UTF-8 and ISO entries.

Kkl

[jthompson]

I still get the error even after trying your suggestions. Maybe its just this one perl script. Its a setup script for the 2X terminal server. www.2x.com.

[Kikoolol]

In my case, the problem happened when using apt (doing the dist-upgrade from dapper to edgy). For a lot of packages, it was displayed again & again on the terminal when "unpacking ..." & "setting ..." them. If you often upgrade your distro using apt and without seeing this kind of message, then yes I guess this particular script you are talking about may be in cause ...

Good luck !

Kkl

[alvenegas]

Hello,

I get the same errors and by following the various suggestions
posted here and in other threads, I still have the same problem.
I post here because I believe it is a problem of a32 vs. 64 bit.
When I use perl or other utilities (for example I get Gtk Warning
locale problems as well when invoking firefox32) I get same
sort of locale problems that fall back to 'C'.

My problem is that although for 64 bit utilities it does not complain,
for 32 it does, perhaps it has something to do with it. Any help will
be greatly appreciated,

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").

When I do 'locale -a' I get :

C en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 en_SG.utf8 en_US.utf8 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZW.utf8 POSIX

I do not have any other locale (ISO8859) and I do not know why. Every time
I run dpkg-reconfigure locales I get:

Generating locales... en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date Generation complete.

When I invoke firefox32: I get the following error:

(firefox-bin:21674): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale.

Any suggestions other than doing:
sudo apt-get install localeconf
dpkg-reconfigure locales

Any suggestion keeping in mind that it may be a 32 to 64bit consequence?

Thanks in andvance

[incubus]

What about:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall language-pack-en

Of course, replace "en" with your language abbreviation.

incubus

[marceloramone]

marcelo@marcelo:~$
marcelo@marcelo:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall language-pack-es
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libsmokeqt1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/180kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "es_ES",
LC_ALL = "es_ES",
LC_LANG = "es_ES",
LANG = "es_ES"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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
(Reading database ... 147473 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace language-pack-es 1:6.10+20061130 (using .../language-pack-es_1%3a6.10+20061130_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement language-pack-es ...
Setting up language-pack-es (6.10+20061130) ...
marcelo@marcelo:~$

[marceloramone]

This problem was finally solved adding the following lines in the terminal:

cd /usr/lib/locale

sudo ln -s es_ES.utf8 es_ES