Problem with locales (some solution?)

[Eleka]

Hello

I posted a days ago a question in one post to resolve my troubble with locales in my Ubuntu 64.

After investigate a little, I find that the dpkg-reconfigure locales have a issue that make it crashes and have a "segmentation fault". Then I discover that the problem were in the locale-gen script ... but, when I compare it with other locale-gen in other computer, it's the same ... and in one it works and in mine, it crashes.

I began to read the code of the script, and I found a line that, I think, is the problematic one:

while read locale charset ...

The "while" and the "read" I think are OK, but when I execute "locale charset" in one computer working OK, it doesn't return anything at the terminal, but in mine, it returns that:

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

If you think that I forgot to install my language-packs, I did it, it's all intalled ...

Can somebody help me?

Thanks a lot and excuse my poor english!

[Eleka]

I found that the problem is exactly with the command localedef, that is executed in the "while" loop ... How can a executable file providad with my Ubuntu CD are bad compiled???

How can I resolve that?

[Navyblue]

Have you tried "dpkg-reconfigure locales" to enable those locale?

[Eleka]

Yes, and dpkg-reconfigure locales uses locale-gen script, and it fails when runs localedef ....

Yesterday I tried to run localedef in the same way that the script do, and I've the same segmentation fault. .. Can be a bug in the localedef program?

[Eleka]

Somebody knows somaething about this?

I'm very confused .... The libc6 package are making my system unstable at all and I can't use Ubuntu on this desketop ...

Can somebody help?

[kawinter]

Originally Posted by Eleka Somebody knows somaething about this? I'm very confused .... The libc6 package are making my system unstable at all and I can't use Ubuntu on this desketop ... Can somebody help?

I am having the exact same problem. I have been told to run locale-gen but when I do the system crashes and reboots. I cannot run apt-get install because that causes the LOCALE error to come up and the system crashes and reboots. I have googled this and find the error mentioned clearly in many forums but no "fix" clearly mentioned. A lot of guesses, none of which has worked for me. I am also running the 64bit package of Breezy Badger.

[Eleka]

I reported it some days ago to the Ubuntu bugzilla, and I'm working on it to discover whre is the problem: I know that localedef is the binary that fails, but I don't know why.

To test it, I want to install libc6-gdb (the package that contains localedef with debugging symbols), but when I run localedef, is the localedef of libc6 "normal", and I don't want to uninstall the libc6 pckage because more than 900 packages will be deleted with it ....

I'm waitting for a answer of the bugzilla people, when I know something, I will say ...

[kawinter]

Originally Posted by Eleka I reported it some days ago to the Ubuntu bugzilla, and I'm working on it to discover whre is the problem: I know that localedef is the binary that fails, but I don't know why. To test it, I want to install libc6-gdb (the package that contains localedef with debugging symbols), but when I run localedef, is the localedef of libc6 "normal", and I don't want to uninstall the libc6 pckage because more than 900 packages will be deleted with it .... I'm waitting for a answer of the bugzilla people, when I know something, I will say ...

I hope I understand the answer when you get it I am so much more of a newbie than you are. Right now I am feeling like my only choices are to switch distros. Maybe if I went to the regular Debian for AMD 64 I would not be having so many problems, or maybe Fedora.

[Psquared]

Same problem here -- but a little different.

Whenever I try to compile or even install a program I get a warning, either by GTK or Perl saying that it is unable to

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

or;

Perl warning: unable to set locale: No such file or directory.

This started after I installed Enlightenment. There are several modules which have to be compiled and it simply borks on the ./autogen.sh script.

I have run the dpkg-reconfigure locales so many times I am sick of it.

Please somebody come up with a solution.

I found a very technical website dealing the locale issue and Perl, but I couldn't make heads nor tails of it.

[kawinter]

Well I gave up. I've fought with the locales problem for days and I need the computer to work and work reliably. I wiped Ubuntu and installed straight Debian which seems to be working much better. Best wishes to all the users on the Ubuntu forum.