Bad entry for locales / setting locale failure

[xsism]

I believe after i installed LIVeS and LMMS, one of the dependent packages reconfigured something.

My suspect is libc6. My main issue is that VLC began telling me:

Cannot set locale to ''.

which when run from terminal gives:

VLC media player 0.8.4 Janus

(process:7234): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

(.:7234): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

So I investigated the problem and began seeing similar errors all leading to locales. I searched high and low on google and ubuntu forums and tried many attempts to sovle the problem, but I couldn't figure it out.

I finally did this:

$/usr/lib/locale/en_US$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure --force locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US",
        LC_ALL = "en_US",
        LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
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
Error: Bad entry 'en_US '
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... up-to-date
Error: Bad entry 'en_US.UTF-8 '
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Error: Bad entry 'en_US.utf8 '
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
Current default timezone: 'America/Monterrey'.
Local time is now:      Mon Dec 25 00:18:38 CST 2006.
Universal Time is now:  Mon Dec 25 06:18:38 UTC 2006.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.

I do not know what bad entry means nor how I can fix it. I rebooted and still got the same errors about locales being wrong. I use perl to test and I get variations of:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US",
        LC_ALL = "en_US",
        LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I've tried en_US, en_US.UTF-8, en_US.utf8 and all gave the same errors.

I looked into removing libc6 and locales so that I could get a fresh install of them, but they are used by far too many packages.

I finally got nvidia drivers working after many reboots and hours of reading forums, i'm so tired of this crap randomly breaking or not working. I'm desperate, please help!

[NeoLithium]

Is your time zone set correctly from your install? I just noticed the

Current default timezone: 'America/Monterrey'.

Just asking cause I had that issue once where my tz was conflicting with the locale

[xsism]

it's the only GMT-6 i could find on the stupid TZ map. I live in Texas.


Remember too, I never had these issues until today, when I installed LMMS and LIVeS.

I think the issues is LIVeS. I got the DEB from http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=lives since there is no official pack.

I've since removed both LMMS and LIVeS, but that didn't help.


Is there ANY way to see what packages have been installed recently?

EDIT: synaptic hs a history, but doesn't show when I installed the LIVeS deb pack, how can I figure out what packs it installed? It was like 21 packs iirc.

better yet, how do I just fix the locales conflicts?

[xsism]

SOLVED (so it appears)
--------------------------------

I edited /etc/belocs/locales-gen.conf ...

PURGE=yes

then did...

export LC_ALL="C"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --force locales

Everything was reset and I don't have those pesky errors. After I logged out and then back in, VLC no longer gave the errors either.

My /etc/environment file now looks like this

LANG="C"
LANGUAGE="C"
LC_ALL="C"

I'm going to try en_US.UTF-8 now, but I know for sure it works with C
EDIT----
Ok, Nothing else works besides C, but I discovered that the only thing that needs to be C is LC_ALL, so you can do
export LC_ALL="C"

this is my working enviroment

$ locale
LANG=en_US:en
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C

END EDIT-----


Here are some pages I used in my journey...
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=159177
http://forums.vpslink.com/showthread.php?t=286
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1057783
http://oriya.sarovar.org/docs/gettin...ed/node16.html
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83315

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if anyone needs help i'll try to assist best I can. This was on a Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper LTS install on HD with nvidia kernel compile.

Remember that packages get updated over time adn that can cause some weirdness.

[mahasmb]

THANK YOU!

Thank you ever so much!

This worked. I've been struggling for days on this problem.